pkgbase(8) (was: separation of pkgbase from pkg)

Graham Perrin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hackers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dropping freebsd-pkgbase@ (the discussion began to freebsd-hackers@ alone).

On 20/02/2026 21:29, vermaden wrote:
> … pkgbase(8) command with separate configs/paths nad SQLite database for Base System while leaving current pkg(8) with its own paths and database for third party packages …

-1 to creating a pkgbase(8) tool that must be used separately from 
existing tools such as pkg-upgrade(8).

The nature of separation should have been understood when official 
packaging began in 2023, when Bapt described the separate FreeBSD-base 
repo.

file /var/db/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-base/db

It's an SQLite 3.x database.
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