Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:52:25 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht <lists@cmplx.uk> To: stable@freebsd.org, pkgbase@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] stable/15: new base packages for PAM, zstd Message-ID: <aeedOZ7VcQAOsQCV@cmplx.uk> In-Reply-To: <adTq6tMP4GWQS35e@amaryllis.le-fay.org>
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On Tue, Apr 07, 2026 at 12:30:50PM +0100, Lexi Winter wrote: > hello, > > i've just MFC'd two commits to stable/15[0] which add new packages for > OpenPAM (FreeBSD-pam*) and Zstandard (FreeBSD-zstd*). if you have > set-minimal installed, you do not need to do anything; the new packages > will be installed automatically the next time you run pkg upgrade. > > if you do *not* have set-minimal installed (because you didn't install > with bsdinstall, or because you removed it after installation), you MUST > install the FreeBSD-pam package, otherwise you will no longer be able to > log into the system after updating. > > to display the sets you currently have installed, use this command: > > % pkg query -e '%n ~ FreeBSD-set-*' '%n' > > [0] 95cc7f59b7ce "libpam: Move to a new "pam" package" > 8c61751d078e "zstd: Move to a new zstd package" I recently upgraded Lenovo T480 laptop from some 14.x relase to 15.0-RELEASE-p4. I'm still figuring out the use of pkg for base upgrades. For a few weeks all was working more or less well (some unexpected reboots, but I had no time to dig into that). After reading your mail, I typed the pkg query command you suggested, which returned nothing. I then did "pkg install FreeBSD-set-minimal". When that completed, I realised that my user is gone.... Looking at /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd I see that indeed my user is not there anymore. All my files are owned by my old uid. Is this the expected behaviour? What have I done wrong? I tried to manually add my user, with the uid/gid matching my files, but that didn't seem to work. How can I recover? Thank you Antonhome | help
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