Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Re: Questions regarding installing and upgrading ports in stable

Lea Chescotta <lea.chescotta@protonmail.com> writes:

> -Then, i added some ports with "pkg_add <package>", so those packages
> may be outdated in the sense of latest security packages, because
> -stable don't get binary security updates, and issuing "pkg_add
> <package>" installed the -stable package instead of the -current
> (latest) version.

You can't really run -current ports on -stable. You run -stable, or you
run -current. Mixing will not end well.

You can get -stable package updates from m-tier.

https://mtier.org/solutions/apps/openup/

Allan

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