Re: RFC: Renaming "FreeBSD" repo in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf to "FreeBSD-ports"
Colin Percival <[email protected]>
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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? -- Colin Percival FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid