sysrc utility

[Troels Agergaard Jacobsen]

You can add incremental configs in /usr/local/etc:

/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf:
FreeBSD: {
  url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",
}

This will only change the url and keep the rest.

Best regards
Troels



On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 3:53 PM Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 09:24:54 -0400, Ernie Luzar wrote:
> > Can I use the sysrc utility to change a line in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf
> > from url: "pkg+http://pkg.Freebsd.org/${ABI}/quarterly",
> > to   url: "pkg+http://pkg.Freebsd.org/${ABI}/latest",
> >
> > If so, how would it be coded?
>
> The sysrc tool is intended for system configuration files
> in the "sh name=value" style, like /etc/rc.conf and others.
> The pkg configuration file is in a very different format.
>
> See "man sysrc" for details, FILES section.
>
>
>
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