Re: Questions about pkgbase

On Thu, 2 Oct 2025 12:54:55 +0300
Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On 02/10/2025 12:35, Lexi Winter wrote:
> > yes, the merge functionality is the same (more or less), but the result
> > for the user is worse: etcupdate makes it clear which files failed to
> > merge and offers a manual resolution of the merge with conflict markers,
> > while pkg just prints a message, which is usually lost in the hundreds
> > of other messages printed during an upgrade, and requires the user to
> > manually locate the unmerged files via find / -name '*.pkgnew', then
> > you only get the old and new files with no way to easily see what has
> > changed in the new version of the file.  (basically, this is a manual
> > two-way merge.)
> > 
> > if there's a better way to do this with pkg, i'd definitely like to know
> > about it.
> 
> It would be good if pkg installed base configuration files into etcupdate's tree 
> and then a user needed to explicitly run etcupdate to apply configuration updates.
> 
> But I imagine that this may not be very easy to do and it would create a 
> relatively fragile dependency between pkg and etcupdate.
> 
> -- 
> Andriy Gapon

Isn't it better to keep freebsd-update (with modifications) and
wrap pkgbase upgrades around?

Doing so would allow splitting etcupdate process out from base pkg
upgrades, isn't it?


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Tomoaki AOKI    <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>