[Bug 284054] ports-mgmt/pkg: Does not recognize .pkg as a valid suffix (triggered by portupgrade)

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=284054

--- Comment #9 from Mark Millard <marklmi26-fbsd@yahoo.com> ---
(In reply to Mark Millard from comment #7)

Hmm. There was a much later fix (2024!) to the usage messages to
track that change:

diff --git a/usr.sbin/pkg/pkg.c b/usr.sbin/pkg/pkg.c
index 70086886fbc5..cc23ffb8c257 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/pkg/pkg.c
+++ b/usr.sbin/pkg/pkg.c
@@ -895,7 +895,7 @@ static const char args_bootstrap_message[] =

 static const char args_add_message[] =
 "Too many arguments\n"
-"Usage: pkg add [-f] [-y] {pkg.txz}\n";
+"Usage: pkg add [-f] [-y] {pkg.pkg}\n";

 static int
 pkg_query_yes_no(void)
@@ -1167,7 +1167,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])

                if (add_pkg) {
                        if (pkgarg == NULL) {
-                               fprintf(stderr, "Path to pkg.txz required\n");
+                               fprintf(stderr, "Path to pkg.pkg required\n");
                                exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
                        }
                        if (access(pkgarg, R_OK) == -1) {

See:

https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/usr.sbin/pkg?id=f5c847ae849aab9354d0956afd683f1c90bfd91e

So the bootstrap's messaging did not make discovery of the
default being .pkg simple via that path of discovery.

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