Update packages?

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drhowarddrfine said:
pkg update

Did you read the Handboook? It's quite clear.
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Nah, just the modern type of "I'm too lazy to use Google and instead ask right away don't caring about the impression I will make because my lazy approach always works fine for me..." internet user.
 
I have installed Freebsd 13.0 1 month ago. Running pkg update doesn't give me any updates. It is normal? I thought I was doing something wrong.
 
Spity said:
I have installed Freebsd 13.0 1 month ago. Running pkg update doesn't give me any updates. It is normal?
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Maybe. First: As others said pkg update doesn't perform an update - it just updates your local database of available packages; Updates will be installed by executing pkg upgrade afterwards.

By default the packages you receive are built quarterly. Means: four times in a year. So if you already got the latest quarterly branch there might be none update for the next three months. On the quarterly branch a package will only get an update if there's a reason for - and not just because a newer version exists.

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ports/ -> chapter 4.4.2
 
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