/etc files

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 08/30/15 15:12, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 30/08/2015 17:42, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>> ll /home/rsync/Jaguar/etc/*:
>> -rw-r--r--. 1 wam users 143851520 Sep  3  2014
>> /home/rsync/Jaguar/etc/enabled:
>> -rw-r--r--. 1 wam users         0 Sep  3  2014
>> /home/rsync/Jaguar/etc/fingerprints:
>> -rw-r--r--. 1 wam users         0 Sep  3  2014
>> /home/rsync/Jaguar/etc/mirror_type:
>> -rw-r--r--. 1 wam users         0 Sep  3  2014
>> /home/rsync/Jaguar/etc/signature_type:
> Hmmm... this all looks somewhat familiar from pkg(8) configuration.
> Except what is used by pkg(8) is from inside the file
> /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf --
>
> lucid-nonsense:/home/matthew:# cat /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf
> # $FreeBSD: stable/10/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf 263938 2014-03-30 15:29:54Z
> bdrewery $
> #
> # To disable this repository, instead of modifying or removing this file,
> # create a /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf file:
> #
> #   mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos
> #   echo "FreeBSD: { enabled: no }" > /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
> #
>
> FreeBSD: {
>    url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",
>    mirror_type: "srv",
>    signature_type: "fingerprints",
>    fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
>    enabled: yes
> }
>
> And, as it says, you shouldn't edit /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf, but instead
> create files in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos if you want to override the
> defaults.
>
> Perhaps some shell script went a bit awry?
>
>    	Cheers,
>
> 	Matthew
>
>

I *think* that may be the case given the dates on those files, it was 
either a then-new pkg burping or a still-way-too-noob root user 
fat-fingering something. Thanks :-).

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