Preferring /usr/local/sbin/pkg (was: pkg: invalid option --, and pkg: illegal option --)

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From: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 02 May 2025 11:53:42 UTC

On 02/05/2025 08:15, Florian Smeets wrote:
> … I suspect be61deae0aa2 …

Thanks! I remembered "breaking change" somewhere, couldn't find it 
before I sent my previous email.

<https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/be61deae0aa2923bb9908fc5b37b35712603e622>

So, I can work around by specifying the path to the pkg binary that's 
_not_ in base.


root@mowa219-gjp4-zbook-freebsd:~ # which pkg
/usr/sbin/pkg
root@mowa219-gjp4-zbook-freebsd:~ # pkg which /usr/sbin/pkg
/usr/sbin/pkg was installed by package 
FreeBSD-pkg-bootstrap-15.snap20250501133208
root@mowa219-gjp4-zbook-freebsd:~ # pkg which /usr/local/sbin/pkg
/usr/local/sbin/pkg was installed by package pkg-2.1.2
root@mowa219-gjp4-zbook-freebsd:~ # pkg repos -el | sort -f
pkg: invalid option -- e
pkg: invalid option -- l
FreeBSD-base
FreeBSD-ports
local-current
root@mowa219-gjp4-zbook-freebsd:~ # /usr/local/sbin/pkg repos -el | sort -f
FreeBSD-base
FreeBSD-ports
local-current
root@mowa219-gjp4-zbook-freebsd:~ #