Re: Is using ports directly (via 'make', etc) a second-class citizen?

[Chris]

On 2025-05-08 14:48, free...@oldach.net wrote:

On Thu, 08 May 2025 08:59:25 -0700, Chris <portmas...@bsdforge.com> wrote:

On 2025-05-08 06:23, free...@oldach.net wrote:

Moin Rahman wrote on Thu, 08 May 2025 14:19:05 +0200 (CEST):

Let me be blunt, because this needs to be said clearly.

No necessity. It boils down to the fact that STABLE's and RELEASE's
FreeBSD.conf refer to different repository URLs. Which I simply wasn't

aware of. Perhaps documented somewhere?

Please see pkg.conf(5). :)

than what a URL field does in that man page.


the example:

  url: "pkg+https://pkg.freebsd.org/${ABI}/latest";


what ABI should be (yes I am aware this is auto generated, that's not the

combinations. (Does FreeBSD:13:i386 exist?)

It has been said that man pages are reference documentation and not tutorial

lacking in FreeBSD to some degree which can and will be debated.


when some of you do not explain anything in depth.

But it sure would be nice if you did. :)

So ... pkg.conf(5) ... I couldn't find -clear- documentation on anything other Now I happen to have some familiarity (which will quite likely be challenged on these lists) with this entire ports system. With this in mind, I'll note that comes with no explanation of the "pkg+https" pseudo-schemea, no clear idea of point), and no list that I've found (even unmaintained) of supported scheme/ABI documentation. Yet I find the most common implication of "Please see some man page" is that it is somehow a substitute for tutorial documentation, which is It is not required to explain anything. It is a courtesy, which I dare say is the same kind of courtesy as knowing at least -some- background before posting a bug report. I know some of you are insanely busy, which is why I understand

Truth is. The man page I referenced is the one I learned this from back when

Sorry. Just trying to help.


rivaled every other OS available, by a long shot.

-- Chris

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pkg(8) was relatively new. So I assumed it'd provide the clues for you as well. P.S. As FreeBSD docs go. For as long as I can remember FreeBSD documentation has

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