Re: PKGBASE upgrade from ALPHAxx to BETAxx

From: Harry Schmalzbauer <freebsd_at_omnilan.de>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:10:37 UTC 
On 2025-10-16 19:04, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> Am 16.10.2025 um 18:58 schrieb Harry Schmalzbauer <freebsd@omnilan.de>:
>> Overriding base FreeBSD-base repository config with a config file located in LOCALPREFIX:-/usr/local is comprehensible and the way users are supposed to do according to the notes in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf.
> 
> Overriding - granted. I have been doing the same for years.
> 
> But on a fresh FreeBSD 15 pkgbase system the repos for
> FreeBSD-ports and FreeBSD-ports-kmods are configured in
> /etc/pkg and the repo for FreeBSD-base itself in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos.
> 
> Or to put it differently:
> 
> Why does /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf *not* contain the repo for packaged base?
> 
> I think that's odd.


It is, otoh. we're on Alpha/Beta...
I guess this will change.
In a recent Reply Collins noted that the package signing infrastructure 
for the base repository wasn't ready... so for the release, some more 
things will change.  Just a wild guess though...

Best,
-harry