Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2025 09:32:28 -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: <4E5A2CB6-40DD-4EF1-8663-0855E3206862@yahoo.com> References: <4E5A2CB6-40DD-4EF1-8663-0855E3206862.ref@yahoo.com>
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Marco Moock <mm_at_dorfdsl.de> wrote on Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:53:48 UTC : > Am 02.12.2025 um 08:42:59 Uhr schrieb Mark Millard: > > > As stands the instructions do not even mention freebsd-update > > being inappropriate. The referenced material that at at: > > Is that also unsupported in case the 14.3 system is NOT pkg-basified? > > Which is the preferred way in that situation? pkgbase for 14.* was always experimental, not supported, as I understand. That is what makes it an odd starting point. The wording related to 14.* implicitly presumes a non-experimental context as stands. The historical way continues to work for the historical type of installation that did not involve pkgbase. So the existing wording should work fine for upgrading to 15.0-RELEASE from a 14.* when pkgbase is not involved in the context. At this point it is probably best to already be running a FreeBSD version that supports pkgbase officially before switching to pkgbase (if one wants to switch). For now that means already running 15.0-RELEASE before switching to pkgbase. (I ignore here: main [so: 16].) Such is my understanding of the status. === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com
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