RE: RFC: Renaming "FreeBSD" repo in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf to "FreeBSD-ports"

Colin Percival <cperciva_at_freebsd.org> wrote on
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 22:49:23 UTC :

> Hi everyone,
> 
> With pkgbase being the intended way for users to manage 15.0 systems,
> the current default /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf gives rise to confusion: It
> defines a "FreeBSD" pkg repository which is in fact specifically bits
> maintained *outside* of FreeBSD (and packaged via the ports tree).

Not that I consider an appropriate answer obvious, but
the file names as well as the content in the file? :

/etc/pkg/FreeBSD-ports.conf ?

> To reduce long-term confusion, I'm intending to rename the "FreeBSD"
> repository to "FreeBSD-ports", and similarly rename "FreeBSD-kmods" to
> "FreeBSD-ports-kmods". The repositories will still work, and will still
> access the same URLs, but the change will be visible; probably the most
> common scenario where this would cause problems for users is if they have
> "FreeBSD: {enabled: no }" in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf, since
> that would need to be adjusted to chase this change.

/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-ports.conf ?

> For obvious reasons, this change would not be MFCed.
> 
> You've got a week to convince me that this is a bad idea, otherwise I'll
> make the change on the 27th; I want to get this out of the way before we
> get too close to branching stable/15.

The adjusted file naming would tend to suggest a separate file
for pkgbase content.

Naming left as it is might suggest all in one file, pkgbase
included.

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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com