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 <g...@freebsd.org> 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.

Greg
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