Re: /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf and /usr/local/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf (not repo names)

On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@freebsd.org>
wrote:

> Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp> writes:
> > I think pkg is quite irregular corner case.
> > Indeed, it SHALL be the part of base, but as it is still under active
> > developement, need to be in ports "until the spec prolerly fixed up".
> > So exists /usr/sbin/pkg for bootstrapping.
>
> I don't know where you got that idea.  It's in ports because it's
> closely tied to the ports tree and has a different lifecycle than base.
>
> DES
> --
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@FreeBSD.org
>

My distinct recollection is that bapt posted that because pkg was under
very active development and needed to be consistent for all versions of
base, the bootstrap mechanism would be used until pkg was stable and the db
would not be reconfigured. (I assume that this meant incompatible changes
to the schema.)

My strong belief is that pkg needs to always be bootstrapped as it is
unlikely to never be that stable.
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