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 Monday, June 29th, 2026 at 10:00 AM, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have suggested elsewhere that the last of the output from those
> commands should probably list the counts of each of *.pkgnew and
> *.pkgave such files generated for any where the count is positive. That
> would make a good prompt to go looking --and allow avoiding looking when
> none were generated.

I would second this comment/suggestion, particularly for those who are newer or less familiar with FreeBSD update practices. My system admin experience comes from other platforms (VMS, linux and other unix) so I have been paying attention to the conversations that are mentioning the *.pkgnew and *.pkgsave files as they seem a bit less intuitive than on the other platforms. For some it may be natural to go looking for these leftover telltales but they may represent important but neglected potential time-bombs for the less familiar.

--Larry