/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf being overwritten during pkg upgrade

[Ben Woods]

On Tuesday, 26 April 2016, Garrett Wollman <wollman at csail.mit.edu> wrote:

> <<On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 19:12:42 +0200, Ben Woods <woodsb02 at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> 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
>

* face palm *

Thanks Garrett. Reading the contents of /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf a bit closer,
it does clearly state that!

Thanks for pointing that out.

Regards,
Ben


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