Re: Trying to understand base system packages

On 10/12/2025 9:35 am, Lexi Winter wrote:

> yes, it will attempt a three-way merge.  if this fails, it will print
> "pkg: Impossible to merge /etc/somefile" during the upgrade, and you
> need to merge the file manually.  this message is very easy to miss, so
> i suggest that after every upgrade, you search the entire filesystem for
> files named '*.pkgsave' or '*.pkgnew'.

Seeing this, I thought "oh well, might as well check on my system", and
found a bunch of *.pkgsave files, mostly in /usr/local/bin/, but also
some in /usr/local/share/licenses/. They are all from 2021, so I
probably don't need to worry?

	Julf