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@…
/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
is typically used by people who prefer latest instead of quarterly for the two ports repos.

happy `ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources’` day to all who celebrate #setuptools

@… thanks, also FYI freebsd-update will be enhanced to use pkg and pkgbasify.

Are you making slides with Quarto or R Markdown and need a timer e.g. for breaks or group work? There is the {countdown} package for you: #rstats

pkg and planetary alignments, Tuesday 6th January 2025
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1q5v7l8/pkg_and_planetary_alignments_tuesday_6th_january/>
@…

@…
<https://www.freshports.org/textproc/py-pdftotext/#pkg-plist> "There is no configure plist information for this port."…

If this file exists, please do NOT follow the widespread advice to overwrite it:
/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
Bug reports for the src and doc trees, and the wiki:
― <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=291501>
― <

Staring you in the face 😅 Previously made a push of my Slackware Mango setup to Codeberg, at first glance this is already 95% there 🥳
Now see if the Latest repos have been updated, making Mangowc available again (yesterday it wasn't, in a pkg that is) and spin up FreeBSD.

I hear that #Python folk are going to enjoy their Monday.
#setuptools removed pkg_resources.
Thanks to Eli Schwartz for the advance warning. We're going to mask it in #Gentoo.

@… the configuration for FreeBSD-base was traditionally at:
/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-base.conf
I think of pkgbasify as setting and continuing that tradition, although it should probably change to FreeBSD.conf for consistency with what's done with things such as FreeBSD Installer.
It's OK to touch FreeBSD.conf.
Not OK to o…

@… I can workaround by excluding base and all other options. Still, there was insufficient memory for a simple pkg command:
pkg update -q
– tail of /var/log/messages below.
The apparent hang at ttyv0 might have been a negligible side-effect of my untimely use of --quiet.
A subsequent non-quiet run succeeded,
pkg update
Installation of Fr…

@… thanks. <https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/2578>, yes?
Cc @…

@… thanks, a few observations.
Nine base sets (minimal plus all eight additions) should be rare, not a norm.
The next screenshot shows 311 packages, that's not consistent with the nine base sets. There should be 488 packages, including pkg itself.
The pictured user has not been added to any groups. They'll not benefit from hardware-acc…

Not sure any longer which libraries your script actually needs? #rstats

Script for finding loaded but unused packages in R scripts
Script for finding loaded but unused packages in R scripts - analyze_pkg_usage.R

@… @… firmwmware for iwm is automatic with the FreeBSD-set-minimal meta package.
root@clean:~ # pkg info --required-by FreeBSD-firmware-iwm
FreeBSD-firmware-iwm-15.0:
FreeBSD-set-minimal-15.0
root@clean:~…

pkgbase: all packages deleted without deleting FreeBSD.
pkg-unregister(8) is our friend.
pkg version 2.5.0 is something special.
A software reason to be jolly for a festive season.
Fa la la la la, la la, la, la.
#FreeBSD #pkg

@… CURRENT is 16.0, not 15.0.
There should be no need for a SRV line in
/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
See /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf
Also: if you chose pkgbase (packages) in FreeBSD Installer, do not remove /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
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What I want, now, is a pkg command to list unregistered packages.
Oops, too late 🙃
#FreeBSD #pkg #MissionImpossible

Relevant code in kubectl doing the completions: #kubernetes #zsh #shell #completion

freebsd-base: major upgrades: pkg-static: no trusted certificates
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1pdsyfo/freebsdbase_major_upgrades_pkgstatic_no_trusted/

@… also:
pkg prime-origins | sort -u
pkg leaf | grep -v FreeBSD
pkg leaf
Leaves, fall, nuts, and kernels: <https://www.reddit.com/r/fre…

Credit: Emmanuel Vadot and @…
(Sorry for the lateness. I was not aware that <https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/pull/2563> had been mentioned on any list, b…

@… I get failure to install offline packages – packages are the default with FreeBSD-15.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso – with UFS, vm.pageout_oom_seq=120 and 256 MB given to a VirtualBox guest.
The tail of /var/log/messages – after bsdconfig networking (to allow use of termbin.com):
Feb 4 01:05:58 pkg[1652]: FreeBSD-bzip2-lib32-15.0 installed
Feb 4 01:05:58 pkg…

I can, for example, delete and then only register the FreeBSD-vi package, with confidence that a related file will not exist.
We can think of this as telling white lies to the database.
root@clean:~ # which vi
/usr/bin/vi
root@clean:~ # pkg delete -fqy FreeBSD-vi FreeBSD-vi-dbg
Generating apropos(1) database for /usr/share/man...
Generating apropos(1) database for /usr/share/openssl/man...
root@clean:~ # pkg install -qUy --register-only FreeBSD-vi FreeBSD…

FreeBSD bug 290024 – FreeBSD Installer live system: pkg: POST-INSTALL script failed (files such as dconf, indexinfo, xmlcatmgr not found)
<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=290024>
Cc @…

@… incidentally,
<https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1925> – Don't overwrite /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
"… beca…