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Date:      Fri, 5 Dec 2025 12:59:02 +0000
From:      Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky@gmail.com>
To:        Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Trying to understand base system packages
Message-ID:  <20251205125902.8b798b7c1d4b6ee68ad8d409@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20251205134510.6fae5caf@dorfdsl.de>
References:  <20251205122830.cb88058f193987b47a95a77c@gmail.com> <20251205134510.6fae5caf@dorfdsl.de>

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On Fri, 5 Dec 2025 13:45:10 +0100
Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> wrote:

> On 05.12.2025 12:28 Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky@gmail.com> wrote:
>  
> > 3. In /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf FreeBSD-base is disabled by default. What
> > is the reason for that? Do I need to manually enable it if I want
> > "pkg upgrade" to upgrade base packages in the future?
> 
> Is your system already pkg-basified?
> What about configuration files in /usr/local/pkg
> 

In this case, it's new install of FreeBSD-15.0 with base packages.
It's a test VM as I'm just trying to experiment with pkg and understand
the reasons for various settings.


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