Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 07:45:40 +0200 From: Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu> Cc: "freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org" <freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf being overwritten during pkg upgrade Message-ID: <CAOc73CBPbMC6ez0U15O8DOXNvKCPWTsoH8PvnzPxOEN-4wYOdg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <22303.43243.357400.240656@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> References: <CAOc73CAKbUTG=P-S2gFkmt5dWrjxRS7pzmXzoxVAvttBsdMDew@mail.gmail.com> <22303.43243.357400.240656@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu>
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On Tuesday, 26 April 2016, Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu> wrote: > <<On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 19:12:42 +0200, Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com > <javascript:;>> said: > > > One minor problem I have noticed is that each time I do a "pkg upgrade -r > > FreeBSD-base" it is overwriting /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf which I have edited > > to disable the default repository. My expectation is that configuration > > files should have a 3 way merge to maintain my local edits, rather than > > overwriting them. > > Ben, I believe the official supported way to do this is to put your > changes into /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf instead -- whatever > is in there will override the files in /etc. > > -GAWollman > * face palm * Thanks Garrett. Reading the contents of /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf a bit closer, it does clearly state that! Thanks for pointing that out. Regards, Ben -- -- From: Benjamin Woods woodsb02@gmail.com
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