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authorLexi Winter <ivy@FreeBSD.org>2025-11-10 10:20:33 +0000
committerLexi Winter <ivy@FreeBSD.org>2026-04-07 11:01:39 +0000
commit95cc7f59b7ce99e8f188a6f308db1b38ae064e4c (patch)
tree42f61601d49f2f50ffa7ea4783658dd818869e41 /UPDATING
parent8c61751d078e433ceaee7161716a7e77eb38f14b (diff)
libpam: Move to a new "pam" package
OpenPAM is a discrete, largely self-contained system component. Users may not need PAM for many use-cases (e.g. jails, containers), so move it to its own package. Use LIB_PACKAGE to create a separate pam-lib package for libpam, so that applications that support PAM don't need to bring in all the PAM modules if PAM isn't actually in use. Add pam to the minimal sets, since this is a core system component that people expect to be installed. This means all supported installation methods will install the PAM modules by default, so don't add explicit dependencies on the PAM modules from things that use PAM (e.g. runtime), allowing custom/embedded systems to omit these easily. This change adds a new package to the system so, until we have a proper policy on how to handle this in release/stable branches, it should not be MFC'd. [stable/15: MFC under the re@ pkgbase policy for 15.1] MFC after: never Reviewed by: des, bapt Sponsored by: https://www.patreon.com/bsdivy Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D53602 (cherry picked from commit 560af6b43e2a86e591e94bea99777630cd5f84fd)
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@@ -13,6 +13,18 @@ Items affecting the ports and packages system can be found in
and/or ports.
20260407:
+ OpenPAM (including libpam and the PAM modules) has moved to the new
+ "pam" package. The pam-lib subpackage, which includes libpam, will
+ be automatically installed when required.
+
+ If you have set-minimal(-jail) installed, the pam base package which
+ contains the PAM modules will also be automatically installed.
+ If you don't, you MUST manually install the FreeBSD-pam package if you
+ need to authenticate users, otherwise you won't be able to log in.
+
+ This change only affects pkgbase users.
+
+20260407:
Zstd has moved to the new "zstd" package. If you have set-minimal
installed, this package will be installed automatically, otherwise
you might want to install it manually. This change only affects