On 2014-05-07 11:52, Manuel Pages wrote:
Errata: ``"snapshot" pigs'' should read
``"snapshot" pkgs''.
Please blame automatic completion.
On May 7, 2014 6:51 PM, "Manuel Pages" <amarr.industr...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Dear list,
Using manuals I have figured out how to follow
-current by means of buliding kernel and rebuilding
userspace. Also I can see that with a known amount
of caution it's possiblle to use snapshots with -current
and update userspace with pkg_add -u.
What escapes my mind though is how do sets get
updated. Can you please link me to manuals covering
the topics of keeping base of the system up to date
and in sync with kernel and binary "snapshot" pigs?
Thanks for being super-helpful as a community!
Cheers.
Manuel,
So called "snapshot packages" are made available to us as a convenience.
There
is no guarantee of synchronicity. With my main architecture (i386),
sometimes
the packages are ahead of the available snapshots. They are built on
separate
systems.
You can wait for packages to be refreshed, or, as in my case, sometimes
wait for
snapshots to be refreshed to be close enough to the packages. Or, you
can build
packages from ports. If you elect to build packages, the dpb(1) tool
helps.
