On Thu, Oct 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM Lexi Winter <[email protected]> wrote: > > pkg(8) will attempt a 3-way merge when installing a new configuration > file. if this is successful, no action is required. if it fails, the > existing file will be left unchanged and pkg will create a <name>.pkgnew > file, which you need to manually merge with the existing version of the > file. > > this workflow is much worse than etcupdate or freebsd-update, and i'm > not convinced we should release with pkgbase as the recommended option > without a better solution, but we'll see.
Doesn't etcupdate perform the same 3-way merge during its operation? My understanding is that pkg and etcupdate will produce the same results for the same inputs.
