Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:54:48 -0700 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: grahamperrin@gmail.com, freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg-repositories(8) and the --rootdir option of pkg(8) Message-ID: <c20bb8ca-0daf-4532-93f5-c7ee2850ed2e@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <a8dbff88-d8fa-418d-bc95-455f5b8bbba7@gmail.com>
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On 3/15/26 17:46, Graham Perrin wrote:
> pkg version 2.6.2.
>
> Below, I half-expected the second use of pkg to show
> base_latest (not base_release_0) in the url.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> root@clean:~ # bectl list -c creation
> BE Active Mountpoint Space Created
> default NR / 11.7G 2025-10-07 04:15
> stable-15 - /tmp/up 483M 2026-03-15 23:31
> root@clean:~ # pkg repos FreeBSD-base
> FreeBSD-base: {
> url : "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/
> base_release_0",
> enabled : yes,
> priority : 0,
> mirror_type : "SRV",
> signature_type : "FINGERPRINTS",
> fingerprints : "/usr/share/keys/pkgbase-15"
> }
> root@clean:~ # pkg -r /tmp/up repos FreeBSD-base
QUOTE (of man pkg output)
-c ⟨chroot path⟩, --chroot ⟨chroot path⟩
pkg will chroot in the ⟨chroot path⟩ environment.
-r ⟨root directory⟩, --rootdir ⟨root directory⟩
pkg will install all packages within the specified ⟨root
directory⟩.
END QUOTE
--rootdir says nothing about anything except where packages are
installed, not where url specifications come from, nor about other files
generated/updated that would have meta data about the install.
--chroot uses the chroot environment instead of the original
environment. There could be different files with different content in
that chroot environment, files that would indicate a different url. But
more then that (such as other files generated/updated) would then be
internal to the chroot enviroment instead of being in the original
environment.
It might be that you were after --chroot instead?
> FreeBSD-base: {
> url : "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/
> base_release_0",
> enabled : yes,
> priority : 0,
> mirror_type : "SRV",
> signature_type : "FINGERPRINTS",
> fingerprints : "/usr/share/keys/pkgbase-15"
> }
> root@clean:~ # grep -A 2 FreeBSD-base /tmp/up/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/
> FreeBSD.conf
> FreeBSD-base {
> enabled = yes;
> url = "pkg+https://pkg.freebsd.org/${ABI}/base_latest";
> root@clean:~ #
>
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