Re: RFC: Renaming "FreeBSD" repo in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf to "FreeBSD-ports"
Graham Perrin <[email protected]>
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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