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Date:      Sun, 16 Nov 2025 16:59:26 GMT
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   git: 6ccdd2fc2328 - main - UPDATING: Document FreeBSD-base pkg .conf shuffle
Message-ID:  <202511161659.5AGGxQMV036976@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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The branch main has been updated by cperciva:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=6ccdd2fc2328dd81b9c645fba025d01052a3c1a1

commit 6ccdd2fc2328dd81b9c645fba025d01052a3c1a1
Author:     Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2025-11-16 16:56:12 +0000
Commit:     Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2025-11-16 16:59:10 +0000

    UPDATING: Document FreeBSD-base pkg .conf shuffle
    
    Reminded by:    yasu
    MFC after:      3 days
---
 UPDATING | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index d6cbe66009f0..aaef0e5b4cd3 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -27,6 +27,16 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 16.x IS SLOW:
 	world, or to merely disable the most expensive debugging functionality
 	at runtime, run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
 
+20251115:
+	The FreeBSD-base repository is now defined in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf,
+	disabled by default.  In -CURRENT and -STABLE this points at nightly
+	builds on pkg.freebsd.org; for BETA/RC/RELEASE builds it points at
+	release engineering builds on pkgbase.freebsd.org.
+
+	Users of pkgbase will need to replace any existing definition of the
+	FreeBSD-base repository in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/ with a single
+	line "FreeBSD-base: { enabled: yes }".
+
 20251110:
 	OpenPAM (including libpam and the PAM modules) has moved to the new
 	"pam" package.  The pam-lib subpackage, which includes libpam, will


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