On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 8:00 AM, Kurt Jaeger <li...@opsec.eu> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 1:30 AM, Julian Elischer <jul...@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> > quarterly however is broken because the pkg mirors discard it all at the
>> > time of update.
>
>> Do they have to?
>> Why couldn't pkg mirrors keep say, the four latest quarterly sets
>> all the time?
>
> Because the URL for the latest quarterly is one stable URL.

Obviously this has to be changed. As I wrote:
"No extra work involved once the setup is configured and tested".
So yes, there is some work needed, but it would be a one-time job.

If anyone has any real arguments as to why the FreeBSD project can't
do it this way, let's hear them.
HTH
-- 
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen
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