On 10/16/25 10:49, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
Am 16.10.2025 um 19:44 schrieb Mark Millard <[email protected]>:
To my knowledge, /etc/pkg/ only has files that are expected to
apply to all systems, no matter how installed/updated. Also,
the files in /etc/pkg/ are expected to not be edited. The
overriding text goes in files in /usr/local/etc/pkg/respos/
instead. (Technically such are conventions, not requirements,
but they fit with FreeBSD update processes in a particular way.)
I follow that argument.
But isn't pkgbase supposed to be the new normal starting with 15.0?
Sorry for the noise if I confused that. Then it will land in
/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf in 16?
I'm planning on putting a "FreeBSD-base" repository configuration into
/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf in 15. It will be disabled by default, in order
to avoid "pkg delete -af" problems, but "pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-base"
should work out of the box.
The reasons this hasn't happened yet have to do with release engineering
processes and setting up the systems for building updates securely.
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