Solved Question on Ports and Packages

[freebsdiz4me]

When I search for packages online the version is different and/ or not available when using pkg.

Online: https://ports.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi

Search Hyprland

Category x11-wm

hyprland-0.53.1


On my personal system using pkg info:

hyprland
Version : 0.51.1

 

[richardtoohey2]

Packages are by default quarterly, but you can change that to follow latest.

Chapter 4. Installing Applications: Packages and Ports

FreeBSD provides two complementary technologies for installing third-party software: the FreeBSD Ports Collection, for installing from source, and packages, for installing from pre-built binaries

docs.freebsd.org

You can also build your own packages from ports yourself if you want to go down that path.

 

[freebsdiz4me]

Packages are by default quarterly, but you can change that to follow latest.

Chapter 4. Installing Applications: Packages and Ports

FreeBSD provides two complementary technologies for installing third-party software: the FreeBSD Ports Collection, for installing from source, and packages, for installing from pre-built binaries

docs.freebsd.org

You can also build your own packages from ports yourself if you want to go down that path.

So, online is latest.

Makes sense.

Thanks.

 

[nxjoseph]

So, online is latest.

I don't think that ports search page of FreeBSD display versions of the package in the 'latest' repositories, but the latest version available in the ports tree. So, they're neither the version in latest nor quarterly repos.

There's FreshPorts -- The Place For Ports - Most recent commits for more details.