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It is possible to specify more than one repository per file.
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It is possible to specify more than one repository per file.
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Quarterly is the name for Ports branches cut from HEAD at the beginning of
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every (yearly) quarter in January, April, July, and October, and the name for
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the binary package sets that are produced from these branches.
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The quarterly branch provides users with a more predictable and stable
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experience for port and package installation and upgrades. This is done
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essentially by only allowing non-feature updates. Quarterly branches aim to
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receive security fixes (that may be version updates, or backports of commits),
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bug fixes and ports compliance or framework changes.
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To switch from quarterly to latest (packages based off ports head) change the
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string
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.Pa quarterly
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to
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.Pa latest
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in the url: line
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.Sh VARIABLES
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.Sh VARIABLES
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The following variables will be expanded during the parsing of
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The following variables will be expanded during the parsing of
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.Nm
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.Nm

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