Re: PKGBASE upgrade from ALPHAxx to BETAxx

On 10/16/25 11:55, Mark Millard wrote:
> On Oct 16, 2025, at 11:04, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Even for installs via "traditional distribution sets"? Or just for
> "technology preview" installs?

Yes.  Having the repository definition there is harmless, and we don't
want to deal with the chaos of people having different versions of that
file depending on how they installed the OS.

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Colin Percival
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