> On 8. Mar 2020, at 00:04, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Saturday, 7 March 2020 at 23:55:33 +0100, Michael Gmelin wrote: > > [More irrelevant text deleted, also dropping current@] > > Is it really so difficult to trim your replies? > >>>>>> On 7. Mar 2020, at 23:39, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> ???On Saturday, 7 March 2020 at 16:46:58 +0100, Michael Gmelin wrote: >>>>>> This was only an issue on the "latest" branch. If you don't alter >>>>>> "/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf", you'll get packages from the "quarterly" >>>>>> branch, which fortunately wasn't affected. >>>>> No, this isn't necessarily correct. I have never modified this file, >>>>> but I ended up with a copy of /usr/src/usr.bin/pkg/FreeBSD.conf.latest >>>>> with this revision string: >>>>> # $FreeBSD: stable/11/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf 263937 2014-03-30 15:24:17Z >>>>> bdrewery $ >>>>> Despite the age, this appears to identical to the current version, >>>>> according to svn blame. Arguably this should be the default anyway. >> Installing 12.1 from install media gives you quarterly. > > Yes, quite possibly. But as I said, it's not always the case.
In the part you trimmed he wrote: >>>>>> I installed 12.1 on a new laptop yesterday, I have not experienced >>>>>> issues with pkg. my comment >>>>> >>>>> This was only an issue on the "latest" branch. If you don't alter >>>>> "/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf", you'll get packages from the "quarterly" >>>>> branch, which fortunately wasn't affected. >>>>> was a direct response to that (fresh install of a 12.1 system). This obviously doesn’t necessarily apply to systems that have been updated from previous releases. -m _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
