package update timing

Nick Guenther kousue at gmail.com
Sun Aug 13 00:36:48 PDT 2006


On 8/13/06, George Goodman <georgegoodman at gmail.com> wrote:
> A quick question...
>
> How regularly are the OBSD packages updated?
>
> I see the latest package for PHP is 5.0.5 which is dated sept 2005 on
> the PHP site. Does this get updated when the new version of OBSD comes
> out, or what?
>

They get updated when they get updated. Each maintainer is listed if you do
pkg_info pkgname
(assuming you have either exported PKG_PATH correctly or you have
installed that package already). Bug them if you want a more updated
version.

See FAQ15 on the OpenBSD site.

-Nick


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