Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 11:22:16 +0100 From: Johan Helsingius <julf@Julf.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trying to understand base system packages Message-ID: <642e4308-3167-45b6-8f7c-578eb377edbd@Julf.com> In-Reply-To: <aTkwuRmEMIpc7UF1@amaryllis.le-fay.org> References: <20251205122830.cb88058f193987b47a95a77c@gmail.com> <aTkwuRmEMIpc7UF1@amaryllis.le-fay.org>
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On 10/12/2025 9:35 am, Lexi Winter wrote: > yes, it will attempt a three-way merge. if this fails, it will print > "pkg: Impossible to merge /etc/somefile" during the upgrade, and you > need to merge the file manually. this message is very easy to miss, so > i suggest that after every upgrade, you search the entire filesystem for > files named '*.pkgsave' or '*.pkgnew'. Seeing this, I thought "oh well, might as well check on my system", and found a bunch of *.pkgsave files, mostly in /usr/local/bin/, but also some in /usr/local/share/licenses/. They are all from 2021, so I probably don't need to worry? Julf
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