From 1cd0fe395ff743f5c0587f85b246ea9904eed3b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: greencoppermine Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 05:47:48 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Patch: describe how to change quarterly to latest Patch for pkg.conf.5 that describes how to change quarterly to latest I was looking for information about "quarterly" vs "latest" and found the documentation lacking this part. The information belongs in the man page for pkg.conf as it contains all the relevant other information, with the only exception in the details for "quarterly" and "latest". --- docs/pkg.conf.5 | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/pkg.conf.5 b/docs/pkg.conf.5 index 719d8968da..a705a58900 100644 --- a/docs/pkg.conf.5 +++ b/docs/pkg.conf.5 @@ -506,6 +506,24 @@ See 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