Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2025 18:28:19 +0900 From: Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp> To: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf and /usr/local/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf (not repo names) Message-ID: <20250823182819.321d4dbca45e56f7c1f0a7aa@dec.sakura.ne.jp> In-Reply-To: <5dc99111-3977-4638-8151-1f69fa819e08@gmail.com>
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On Sat, 23 Aug 2025 08:13:47 +0100 Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> wrote: > <https://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/15.0ISSUES#assigned>; > > > > Add "FreeBSD-base" (or maybe "FreeBSD-src") repository to > > /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf (cperciva) > > > > hier(7) descriptions of /etc/ and /usr/local/ are thought-provoking. > Respectively: > > "base system configuration files and scripts; see intro(5)" > > "local executables, libraries, etc, installed by pkg(7) or ports(7)" > > Colin's base 29f076ae0cb5 was my precedent for multiple repos in a > single file, > > /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf > > As the local stuff of pkg(8) is installed (bootstrapped) by pkg(7), is > the _local_ configuration file a more logical place to specify the > FreeBSD-base and FreeBSD-kmods repos? > > /usr/local/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf > > ---- > > /etc/pkg/ is documented in hier(7), however it's quirky. pkg(8) is not > part of base. > > <https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hier&sektion=7&manpath=freebsd-current>; > > <https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=intro&sektion=5&manpath=freebsd-current>; > > <https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/29f076ae0cb536d1e891d3375edf28f1bc82df79 hier(7) also states that /boot/modules are for "third-party loadable kernel modules, such as those installed with pkg(8) or from ports(7)". So including FreeBSD-kmods repos into other ports stuff is not so logical. IIRC, there was /usr/local/modules or /usr/local/lib/modules for third-party (ports) kmods, but switched to current form as it was fatal on boot if any essential to boot base kmod is there && /usr/local is not in the same partition with / (root). And /etc/pkg is described as "default configuration for the package manager, pkg(8)". So configurations for pkg modified or created by local admins should be in /usr/local/etc/pkg and anything in /etc/pkg should not be touched for sane upgrades of base. -- Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>home | help
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