Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:34:19 -0400 From: Mike <the.lists@mgm51.com> To: freebsd-pkgbase@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Moving to pkg-based in 15.1 ... Message-ID: <1c7b84b2-779d-4746-8c5c-2ad512f95e45@mgm51.com> In-Reply-To: <86a4sot2l4.fsf@ltc.des.dev> References: <db84590d-4284-4a65-83bd-65b517fb783d@mgm51.com> <86a4sot2l4.fsf@ltc.des.dev>
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On 6/21/2026 10:01 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Mike <the.lists@mgm51.com> writes: >> I no longer see that easy ability to update from one patch level to >> the current patch level within the installed version. > > To upgrade a pkgbase system, simply run: > > # pkg upgrade > > or, if you want to upgrade _only_ the base system and leave the rest > untouched: > > # pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-base > > This essentially replaces `freebsd-update fetch` and `freebsd-update > install` in your script, including the intervening prompt, and the rest > will work as before. If you want to get fancy, do: > > # pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-base -Fy > > to download updated packagtes without installing them, then > > # pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-base > > to prompt the user and install the downloaded packages. This will also > avoid a rare situation (very unlikely to occur with pkgbase on a release > branch) where pkg computes an upgrade plan, prompts the user, then > computes a different plan after examining the packages it downloaded and > prompts the user a second time. > > A reboot is always recommended, unless you know exactly what was updated > and can manually restart all affected services (or you know that none of > the services that you run are affected). That was always the case. > >> https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase > > This is severely out of date and (like most of the wiki) was always more > of an internal roadmap than any sort of user documentation. > > DES Excellent! Many thanks for that explanation. >> Now, as I understand the pkgbase system, it has gotten a bit more >> complex. > > On the contrary... > I sit corrected. Thanks again for your excellent explanation!home | help
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