pkgbase(8) (was: separation of pkgbase from pkg)
Graham Perrin <[email protected]>
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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.