RFC: Renaming "FreeBSD" repo in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf to "FreeBSD-ports"
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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 22:49:23 UTC
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
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid