Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 18:05:46 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: Matteo Riondato <matteo@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RFC: Renaming "FreeBSD" repo in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf to "FreeBSD-ports" Message-ID: <91cccdac-406c-46dc-bdbe-c1c016cdee99@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <590B86F2-6F9F-46BF-9569-03F72EA93B5D@FreeBSD.org> References: <05CD2AAD-31EA-471B-8028-A3902D7A4192@yahoo.com> <5bece4af-0bec-457e-847f-7ca1cb031f86@freebsd.org> <590B86F2-6F9F-46BF-9569-03F72EA93B5D@FreeBSD.org>
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On 8/19/25 17:58, Matteo Riondato wrote: >> On Aug 19, 2025, at 8:25 PM, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> 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 paranoidhome | help
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