Re: Trying to understand base system packages

From: Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:59:02 UTC 
On Fri, 5 Dec 2025 13:45:10 +0100
Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> wrote:

> On 05.12.2025 12:28 Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky@gmail.com> wrote:
>  
> > 3. In /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf FreeBSD-base is disabled by default. What
> > is the reason for that? Do I need to manually enable it if I want
> > "pkg upgrade" to upgrade base packages in the future?
> 
> Is your system already pkg-basified?
> What about configuration files in /usr/local/pkg
> 

In this case, it's new install of FreeBSD-15.0 with base packages.
It's a test VM as I'm just trying to experiment with pkg and understand
the reasons for various settings.