Re: PKGBASE upgrade from ALPHAxx to BETAxx

On 10/16/25 10:49, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
>> Am 16.10.2025 um 19:44 schrieb Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>:
>> To my knowledge, /etc/pkg/ only has files that are expected to
>> apply to all systems, no matter how installed/updated. Also,
>> the files in /etc/pkg/ are expected to not be edited. The
>> overriding text goes in files in /usr/local/etc/pkg/respos/
>> instead. (Technically such are conventions, not requirements,
>> but they fit with FreeBSD update processes in a particular way.)
> 
> I follow that argument.
> 
> But isn't pkgbase supposed to be the new normal starting with 15.0?
> 
> Sorry for the noise if I confused that. Then it will land in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf in 16?

I'm planning on putting a "FreeBSD-base" repository configuration into
/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf in 15.  It will be disabled by default, in order
to avoid "pkg delete -af" problems, but "pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-base"
should work out of the box.

The reasons this hasn't happened yet have to do with release engineering
processes and setting up the systems for building updates securely.

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Colin Percival
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