Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 21:12:56 -0400 From: Matteo Riondato <matteo@FreeBSD.org> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@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: <0880E553-F55E-4C1E-AEE5-69E9A86AEBF1@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <91cccdac-406c-46dc-bdbe-c1c016cdee99@freebsd.org> References: <05CD2AAD-31EA-471B-8028-A3902D7A4192@yahoo.com> <5bece4af-0bec-457e-847f-7ca1cb031f86@freebsd.org> <590B86F2-6F9F-46BF-9569-03F72EA93B5D@FreeBSD.org> <91cccdac-406c-46dc-bdbe-c1c016cdee99@freebsd.org>
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> On Aug 19, 2025, at 9:05 PM, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> wrote: > > 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? I guess =) Maybe this was discussed in phabricator as you mentioned, but it would seem more natural to me to provide individual files for each repository provided by the project, with a descriptive name (e.g., FreeBSD-ports, FreeBSD-ports-kmod, …, and store them in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/ This solution would also allow to remove the (IMHO weird) suggestion of creating *another* file FreeBSD.conf in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos to disable some of these repositories (why is that suggestion needed? Can’t etcupdate handle changes to /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf ?) Thanks, Matteohelp
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