Re: None of "man freebsd-base" (or "man pkgbase"), "man pkg-upgrade", or "man pkg-install" deal with documenting .pkgsave and/or .pkgnew behavior or how to handle such

On Tue, Jun 30, 2026 at 10:04:06AM -0700, Mark Millard wrote:

>Variations on:
>
>find -s / \
>  \( -name \*.pkgnew -or -name \*.pkgsave -or -name .pkgtemp.\* \) \
>  -exec ls -lodT {} \; \
>| more
>
>can be of use.

I see some of these remnants on systems which have never had pkgbase.
Some managed by freebsd-update, most not - they're running -stable.
One is running -current.

Like 

-rw-r--r--  1 root wheel - 786736 Oct 18 04:00:38 2020 /usr/local/etc/ssl/cert.pem.pkgsave
-rw-r--r--  1 root wheel - 786736 Oct 18 04:00:38 2020 /usr/local/openssl/cert.pem.pkgsave

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel - 28209496 Jul 13 02:15:14 2023 /usr/local/sbin/pkg-static.pkgsave

So there will be no 'man pkgbase' anyway.
Are these files safe to delete?
What is their purpose on a non-pkgbase system?

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