Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:49:23 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Release Engineering Team <re@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RFC: Renaming "FreeBSD" repo in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf to "FreeBSD-ports" Message-ID: <5d2daa68-cd27-4a56-9d69-5453b588a086@freebsd.org>
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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.
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Colin Percival
FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
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