Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2025 09:01:50 -0800 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: mm@dorfdsl.de, FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/installation/ : should it have some notes for folk using a pkgbase 14.* ? relnotes/#upgrade or relnotes/#upgrade-rc ? Message-ID: <276864BD-EC5B-4821-8985-9AAE1CB33694@yahoo.com> References: <276864BD-EC5B-4821-8985-9AAE1CB33694.ref@yahoo.com>
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Marco Moock <mm_at_dorfdsl.de> wrote on Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:10:37 UTC : > Am 03.12.2025 um 07:54:52 Uhr schrieb Mark Millard: > > > On Dec 3, 2025, at 06:23, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > > > > Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> writes: > > >> As stands the instructions do not even mention freebsd-update > > >> being inappropriate. > > > > > > That would be because it isn't. > > > > I'm confused. The context was starting from a pkgbase 14.3 . But: > > > > https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/usr.sbin/freebsd-update?id=cf1aba2857 > > > > freebsd-update: refuse to operate on a pkgbase system > > > > FreeBSD-update is not compatible with packaged base. > > That is intended. If you already have a system with pkgbase, then > freebsd-update will refuse operation because the packages are handled > by pkg. I know. That is why I was confused by the reply I got that indicates freebsd-update is appropriate to the context that I tried to specify. I was trying to report that there are no instructions for folks that experimented with pkgbase for 14.* (such as 14.3) but did not progress to 15.0-PRERELEASE through 15.0-RC*, not even a note to use pkgbase instead of the existing instructions or for dealing with the the same issue that PRERELEASE, ALPHA*, BETA*, and RC* for 15.0 have. Following the existing instructions would have such folks trying to use freebsd-update if they trying to use the existing documentation to answer their questions. Note: As stands, I run pkgbase main mostly and have a pkgbase stable/15 context as well. I do not have the problem that I was reporting. I was trying to indicate likely future support questions on the lists caused by the lack of anything explicit. An example message about doing such an upgrade was: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-pkgbase/2025-December/001141.html == Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com
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