Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:13:48 +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: <aenUvAuAGC8SgpKi@cmplx.uk> In-Reply-To: <aek7L4X26D0zQTU-@amaryllis.le-fay.org> References: <adTq6tMP4GWQS35e@amaryllis.le-fay.org> <aeedOZ7VcQAOsQCV@cmplx.uk> <3847a70c-f2d8-4c4a-a5f0-56a4a90168b0@yahoo.com> <aeh6ddAuDClL4YFn@cmplx.uk> <aek7L4X26D0zQTU-@amaryllis.le-fay.org>
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 10:18:39PM +0100, Lexi Winter wrote: > Anton Shterenlikht wrote in <aeh6ddAuDClL4YFn@cmplx.uk>: > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 12:52:43PM -0700, Mark Millard wrote: > > > On 4/21/26 08:52, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2026 at 12:30:50PM +0100, Lexi Winter wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > > > Did you end up with the likes of: > > > > > > /etc/passwd.pkgsave > > > /etc/master.passwd.pkgsave > > > > Yes, I have /etc/master.passwd.pkgsave > > > > So what happened? > > Is it expected that "pkg install FreeBSD-set-minimal" > > should erase all ordinary users from /etc/master.passwd > > and save the original file as /etc/master.passwd.pkgsave? > > no, something has gone wrong here. > > how did you install this system? > > /etc/master.passwd is in the FreeBSD-runtime package, which must always > be installed on a pkgbase system. the only reason 'pkg upgrade' would > overwrite it with a pristine copy is if you somehow didn't have that > package installed, but if that was the case, the system would already > be completely non-functional. > > the only way i can imagine this happening if you had a non-pkgbase > system, then installed FreeBSD-runtime (e.g., as a dependency of > FreeBSD-set-minimal), but this should not be possible in a normal > non-pkgbase installation since the FreeBSD-base repository won't > be enabled. I admit I got a bit complacent... doing major and minor updates with freebsd-update for years about any issue, that I stopped reading UPDATING, and such. So all this is my fault probably. I used freebsd-update to upgrade from some 14.4 to 15.0. Once on 15.0, when updating ports, I noticed some differences, read some posts, and found out about pkgbase. It's possible that I missed some key steps going 14 -> 15, or made some other mistakes. But after upgrading to 15.0, all I did was "pkg upgrade". Thank you Antonhome | help
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