Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 11:49:14 -0700 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Release Engineering Team <re@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: RFC: Renaming "FreeBSD" repo in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf to "FreeBSD-ports" Message-ID: <D9D55EDC-6136-4EFA-9BBD-4A2935669D06@iitbombay.org> In-Reply-To: <5d2daa68-cd27-4a56-9d69-5453b588a086@freebsd.org>
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Would prefer shorter names or aliases. This is all FreeBSD related so
why not just drop the FreeBSD- prefix?
Thanks!
> On Aug 19, 2025, at 3:49 PM, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> 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).
>
> To reduce long-term confusion, I'm intending to rename the "FreeBSD"
> repository to "FreeBSD-ports", and similarly rename "FreeBSD-kmods" to
> "FreeBSD-ports-kmods". The repositories will still work, and will still
> access the same URLs, but the change will be visible; probably the most
> common scenario where this would cause problems for users is if they have
> "FreeBSD: {enabled: no }" in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf, since
> that would need to be adjusted to chase this change.
>
> For obvious reasons, this change would not be MFCed.
>
> You've got a week to convince me that this is a bad idea, otherwise I'll
> make the change on the 27th; I want to get this out of the way before we
> get too close to branching stable/15.
>
> --
> Colin Percival
> FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
> Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
>
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