Re: RFC: Renaming "FreeBSD" repo in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf to "FreeBSD-ports"

On 8/20/25 01:54, Gleb Popov wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 1:49 AM Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> To reduce long-term confusion, I'm intending to rename the "FreeBSD"
>> repository to "FreeBSD-ports", and similarly rename "FreeBSD-kmods" to
>> "FreeBSD-ports-kmods".
> 
> Having "ports" in the repository name does not make sense to me at
> all. Ports are recipes to produce packages, but there are more ways (I
> know at least one) to create a pkg package.

But the packages in that repo are generated by FreeBSD ports?

>> It defines a "FreeBSD" pkg repository which is in fact specifically bits
>> maintained *outside* of FreeBSD (and packaged via the ports tree).
> 
> Can't agree with this either. FreeBSD Ports are maintained *inside*
> the project as well as package building and hosting infrastructure. It
> feels perfectly fine to have a single configuration file named after
> the *vendor*, which provides multiple repos maintained by that vendor.

What if people only wish to use pkg.freebsd.org for base but not ports
or vice versa?

-- 
John Baldwin