[Bug 284054] ports-mgmt/pkg: Does not recognize .pkg as a valid suffix (triggered by portupgrade)

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=284054

--- Comment #11 from Terry Kennedy <terry-freebsd@glaver.org> ---
Comments 6, 7, and 9 all note that ".pkg" is now the default suffix for
packages.

If that is the case, it seems reasonable that "pkg' be accepted as a package
format by pkg (as it is now, just with the warning message), even though the
"-f pkg" is trying to specify a format and not a file extension.

I'm not suggesting that pkg accept everything that might be passed as a
parameter to -f, or even document that "pkg" is an acceptable format. Just
something like changing:

  case "txz":
    <do some stuff>

to:

  case "txz":
  case "pkg":
    <do some stuff>

Comment 8 reiterates that portupgrade is unmaintained. While that certainly
seems to be the case, it's in the ports tree in FreeBSD 14.2 and documented in
the Handbook (see my comment 4). If the team wants to decide it's deprecated
and either remove it from the Handbook in FreeBSD 15 (or note that it is
deprecated and going away in FreeBSD 16, which is our usual schedule for
announcing deprecation and subsequent removal), that's fine. But for the nearly
4 years of remaining support for FreeBSD 14, can we please do something like
the above one-line change?

Further, I'm reluctant to change things in pkgconf.conf as I don't know what
else relies on it.

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