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

Graham Perrin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports,gmane.os.freebsd.current
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 20/08/2025 09:19, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> … I would like to have a separate file for each repository, …

For a long time, I did work with two files:

/etc/pkg/FreeBSD-base.conf

/etc/pkg/FreeBSD-ports.conf

– FreeBSD-ports.conf was a symlink to FreeBSD.conf, with FreeBSD-ports 
(within the file) as the name for the repo.

I dropped the habit immediately after I discovered that a single file 
could specify multiple repos.

I prefer editing a single file, wherever possible.

I sometimes used uclcmd, <https://www.freshports.org/devel/uclcmd/>.

I typically aim for three repos in the one file:

FreeBSD-base
FreeBSD-kmods
FreeBSD-ports
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