On 23/08/2025 10:28, Tomoaki AOKI wrote:
… /etc/pkg is described as "default configuration for the package
manager, pkg(8)".
Indeed, and pkg(8) is _not_ base, so what's described is not consistent
with /etc/ for base system software configuration files.
<https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=intro&sektion=5&manpath=freebsd-current#FILES>
A single repo e.g. FreeBSD-ports in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf is used by pkg
(7, not 8) for bootstrap.
Then:
- /etc/pkg.conf does not exist
- /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf is explicitly the system-wide configuration
file for pkg(8).
So, I might expect /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf to be the
system-wide FreeBSD repository configuration file for pkg(8).
<https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg.conf&sektion=5&manpath=freebsd-ports#OPTIONS>
REPOS_DIR does have the default list of two directories to search.
When I first saw pkgbasify write a FreeBSD-base configuration to
/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/ I thought that the path was, somehow, unexpected.
After looking at intro(5) and hier(7), /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/ seems
proper (a change of mind).
<https://reviews.freebsd.org/D51594> for pkgbasify in base – without
pkg(8) in base – will probably change my mind, again.
