Attachment 212171 Details for Bug 228333 – Patch for pkg.conf.5 that describes how to change quarterly to latest

[patch] Patch for pkg.conf.5 that describes how to change quarterly to latest

pkg.conf.5.diff (text/plain), 1011 bytes, created by greencoppermine on 2020-03-05 23:55:32 UTC

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Created: 2020-03-05 23:55:32 UTC

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>--- pkg.conf.5	2020-03-06 00:49:44.989724048 +0100
>+++ pkg.conf.5.new	2020-03-06 00:47:58.179718555 +0100
>@@ -506,6 +506,24 @@
> for details.
> .Pp
> It is possible to specify more than one repository per file.
>+
>+Quarterly is the name for Ports branches cut from HEAD at the beginning of
>+every (yearly) quarter in January, April, July, and October, and the name for
>+the binary package sets that are produced from these branches.
>+
>+The quarterly branch provides users with a more predictable and stable
>+experience for port and package installation and upgrades. This is done
>+essentially by only allowing non-feature updates. Quarterly branches aim to
>+receive security fixes (that may be version updates, or backports of commits),
>+bug fixes and ports compliance or framework changes.
>+
>+To switch from quarterly to latest (packages based off ports head) change the
>+string
>+.Pa quarterly
>+to
>+.Pa latest
>+in the url: line
>+
> .Sh VARIABLES
> The following variables will be expanded during the parsing of
> .Nm

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