Not all ports is available to my pkg

[altyne]

For eg: mongo
mongodb40-4.0.18 is only visible other version is not visible or searchable (mongodb42-4.2.8 or mongodb44-4.4.0.r9 ). I used generic base version.

If this question is already answer please provide a link. thanks

 

[George]

Freshports is a good site to check the status of a port.

E.g. https://www.freshports.org/databases/mongodb44/ says it only works for archs aarch64 und amd64.

Versions 42 and 44 seem to be fairly new.

 

[zirias@]

This is kind of a FAQ indeed, with two possible answers.

• There are always two package repositories, latest and quarterly. FreeBSD comes pre-configured to use quarterly, which is updated once each quarter, except for security issues and other really important bugs. A package for a new port won't show up there until the next quarter. Recently, freshports shows you which packages are available in which repository, see for example databases/mongodb42. You can opt to use latest by creating a /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf containing

  FreeBSD: { url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest" }

  After switching, issue a pkg upgrade -f.
• Escpecially if you're using latest, a package could miss temporarily if it failed to build on the official build servers. In that case, just wait a few days.

 

[altyne]

Makes sense.