amd64 snapshots have been flowing again since yesterday. apologies for
the delay.

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 8:02 AM, Marc Espie <es...@nerim.net> wrote:
> I was waiting for snapshots to come up with the new stuff, but it
> looks like amd64 will be a bit late.  Someone is still hiking in
> the mountains...
>
>
> A week ago or so, I committed support for some disambiguating
> filter in pkg_add.
>
> This means that you can now simply install packages for ports which
> have several versions in the tree without having to know the exact
> version.
>
> For instance,
>
> pkg_add python%2.7
> will install a python from the lang/python/2.7 branch.
>
>
> e.g., stem%branch  takes all packages that match stem-* and filters them
> according to a word in their pkgpath, e.g., you can also use it for, say
> postfix%stable  and other things.
>
>
> This is not really a change, but I've checked where I put %m and stuff
> support, it works in pkg.conf, it also works in PKG_PATH and on the
> command-line.
>
> This means that you can, for instance, write something like
> pkg_add http://ftp.fr.openbsd.org/%m/tcl%8.5
> and this will grab tcl on the 8.5 branch from the "appropriate"
> directory of the froggie server, depending on your OpenBSD version
> and architecture.
>

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