Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2025 22:53:40 +0000 From: Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org Subject: Re: user feedback Message-ID: <aP6mdJQROm7zI-4Q@amaryllis.le-fay.org> In-Reply-To: <5bd8bb99-d856-4074-8ce0-4806fab30689@gmx.at> References: <06f829a7-4378-4a24-a3db-f929d812cddd@gmx.at> <5bd8bb99-d856-4074-8ce0-4806fab30689@gmx.at>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] infoomatic wrote in <5bd8bb99-d856-4074-8ce0-4806fab30689@gmx.at>: > I kept my VM around, and upgraded to Beta 2 a few hours after announcement. > However, I have noticed that only few packages upgraded from b1 to b2, so in > the end I had a mix of b1 and b2 packages installed. Is this fine and as it > should be for future installations? this is normal. for each build, only packages which have actually changed get a new version, and not much changed overall between b1 and b2. > [...] Now having packages with b1, b2, b3 it seems a bit odd since I > don't know if the pkg upgrade just had an error or the mirror was not > in sync or something else did not work the way it should. this is not that different from how freebsd-update worked, e.g. when an update doesn't touch the kernel, so you're running 15.0-RELEASE-p1 but uname says 15.0-RELEASE. at least with packages, you can tell what the actual installed version is, and compare it to the versions listed in the EN/SA. the alternative would be that updating a single file for 15.0-RELEASE-p1 would require building a new version of every package just to update the version number, which is not reasonable. > Will all new package versions be accompanied by erratas or security > announcements once 15.0-RELEASE is released? all updates to a release branch (e.g., 15.0-RELEASE) are published as EN/SA. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEABYKAB0WIQSyjTg96lp3RifySyn1nT63mIK/YAUCaP6mcQAKCRD1nT63mIK/ YFwDAQDUsQ3CjfpOXO2x8w/UsGXgWHd7EuRSxSfTuOuwJ0i9agEA2HU642eRKtC8 sJaeGqUGnQwaVHdyOyKqmPTobxbK0Qs= =s4N/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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