From owner-freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org Tue Apr 26 17:44:13 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-pkgbase@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFA12B1D72D for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2016 17:44:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu) Received: from khavrinen.csail.mit.edu (khavrinen.csail.mit.edu [IPv6:2001:470:8b2d:1e1c:21b:21ff:feb8:d7b0]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "khavrinen.csail.mit.edu", Issuer "Client CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 076ED1D32 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2016 17:44:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu) Received: from khavrinen.csail.mit.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by khavrinen.csail.mit.edu (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id u3QHiBbm038287 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL CN=khavrinen.csail.mit.edu issuer=Client+20CA); Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:44:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.csail.mit.edu (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) id u3QHiB8w038286; Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:44:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <22303.43243.357400.240656@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:44:11 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman To: Ben Woods Cc: freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf being overwritten during pkg upgrade In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 24.5.1 (amd64-portbld-freebsd9.3) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (khavrinen.csail.mit.edu [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:44:11 -0400 (EDT) X-BeenThere: freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Packaging the FreeBSD base system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 17:44:13 -0000 < said: > One minor problem I have noticed is that each time I do a "pkg upgrade -r > FreeBSD-base" it is overwriting /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf which I have edited > to disable the default repository. My expectation is that configuration > files should have a 3 way merge to maintain my local edits, rather than > overwriting them. Ben, I believe the official supported way to do this is to put your changes into /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf instead -- whatever is in there will override the files in /etc. -GAWollman