Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2025 12:26:38 +0300 From: Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org> To: ivy@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions about pkgbase Message-ID: <CALH631=ioRih8n-DhD0D1CWjp3kbqemeJUzq2kBgg8GORjAN3g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <aN5DKrWeSlT978zr@amaryllis.le-fay.org> References: <20251002.180121.980053125503545103.yasu@FreeBSD.org> <aN5DKrWeSlT978zr@amaryllis.le-fay.org>
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On Thu, Oct 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org> wrote: > > pkg(8) will attempt a 3-way merge when installing a new configuration > file. if this is successful, no action is required. if it fails, the > existing file will be left unchanged and pkg will create a <name>.pkgnew > file, which you need to manually merge with the existing version of the > file. > > this workflow is much worse than etcupdate or freebsd-update, and i'm > not convinced we should release with pkgbase as the recommended option > without a better solution, but we'll see. Doesn't etcupdate perform the same 3-way merge during its operation? My understanding is that pkg and etcupdate will produce the same results for the same inputs.help
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