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

Colin Percival <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports,gmane.os.freebsd.current
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/19/25 17:58, Matteo Riondato wrote:
>> On Aug 19, 2025, at 8:25 PM, Colin Percival <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 8/19/25 17:17, Mark Millard wrote:
>>> Colin Percival <cperciva_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>> 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 ?
>>
>> I wasn't planning on changing the file name, no.
> 
> Why is then this file named “FreeBSD.conf” ?

Because it's the configuration file which describes pkg repositories provided
by the FreeBSD project?

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Colin Percival
FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
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