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micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="9eBvRXrUI4Pj5TiP" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: --9eBvRXrUI4Pj5TiP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Matthew Seaman wrote in : > On 05/01/2026 06:21, Alexander Ziaee wrote: > > +3. **man:pkgbase[7]** system upgrading from 14.3 to 15.0 is not suppor= ted + > > +**Workaround**: systems installed with man:pkgbase[7] must backup and = reinstall + > > +**State**: works as intended, man:pkgbase[7] is an experimental previe= w + >=20 > Having just finished upgrading all my systems from 14.3-STABLE to > 15.0-STABLE using pkgbase, "must" backup and reinstall sounds a little he= avy > handed to me. yes, this is absolutely wrong. you do not have to reinstall to upgrade =66rom 14 to 15 with pkgbase. the procedure is something like: - pkg upgrade FreeBSD-kernel-generic - reboot - pkg upgrade - pkg install FreeBSD-set-minimal - remove orphaned packages (pkg orphans) it's not *supported* because it's finnicky and no one has documented it, but we should not be telling people they need to reinstall to do this. this is particularly the case since pkgbase was not supported on 14 and the assumption is that anyone using it will have enough understanding of it to manage the upgrade. if they see this wording in the relnotes, they might assume something has changed which actually requires them to reinstall. --9eBvRXrUI4Pj5TiP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; 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