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The syntax may be wrong, I've never tested this,
just copied from irc and tried to write something reasonable.

Reported by: bapt
Requested by: various

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ziaee requested review of this revision.Feb 26 2026, 8:16 AM

These should be handled as a pair with consistent wording, abandoning for https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55458 .

i realise this diff was closed, but i want to point out for future reference that the correct way to convert a system to pkgbase is with the "pkgbasify" tool: https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/pkgbasify.

you cannot just install FreeBSD-set-base onto an existing non-pkgbase system, because (among other things) this will overwrite all your config files.