How to switch pkg from stable quarterly to latest on FreeBSD

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Does anyone know how to switch the pkg command from stable quarterly release to latest on FreeBSD 13.1 running on EC2?

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The procedure to use the latest packages instead of quarterly on the FreeBSD server/workstation/desktop is as follows:

  1. Copy the /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/
sudo cp /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
  1. Edit the /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf using a text editor such as vim/vi/nano/emacs etc. For example:
sudo vim /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
  1. Find the url line and change the keyword from quarterly to latest. For example:
    FIND:
url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/quarterly",

REPLACE/UPDATED/EDIT:

url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",
  1. Save and close the file.
  2. Run the pkg update command and grab to latest packages:
sudo pkg update
sudo pkg upgrade

This is not limited to AWS EC2. Read pkg.conf man page pkg.conf:

man pkg.conf
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Blockquote

mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos
cat > /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf << EOF
FreeBSD: {
    url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/\${ABI}/latest"
}
EOF
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@Florian_LALUQUE Don’t you need an entire config file? If not, that is cool. Thanks!