Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:39:57 -0800
From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
To: Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: HEADS UP: pkgbase breakage 15.0-{PRERELEASE,ALPHA*,BETA*}
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On 12/18/25 06:58, Alan Somers wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 12/17/25 15:34, Alan Somers wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>> Due to recent changes in FreeBSD.org infrastructure, systems still running
>>>> 15.0-{PRERELEASE,ALPHA*,BETA*} (aka anything running 15.0 which hasn't
>>>> upgraded to -RC* yet) will find that 'pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-base' fails,
>>>> since the https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:foo/base_release_0/ repository
>>>> (which used to be nightly builds signed with "pkg" keys) has been replaced
>>>> by what used to be on pkgbase.freebsd.org.
>>>>
>>>> At present the best path forward for you is probably to use git to check out
>>>> the src tree (head, stable/15, or releng/15.0; doesn't matter in this case)
>>>> and run the commands
>>>> # cp /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg/FreeBSD.conf.quarterly-release \
>>>> /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf
>>>> # cp -R /usr/src/share/keys/pkgbase-15 /usr/share/keys/pkgbase-15
>>>> to get the updated configuration file and signing keys.
>>>
>>> I have a system running 15.0-BETA5 with pkgbase. Before I followed
>>> your advice, "pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-base" simply reported that "Your
>>> packages are up to date", possibly because /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf
>>> didn't have any entry for FreeBSD-base (but
>>> /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-base.conf did). After running these
>>> commands, now "pkg update" fails with "pkg: No trusted public keys
>>> found". Could you please help me?
>>
>> What do you have in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-base.conf ?
>
> FreeBSD-base: {
> url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/base_release_0",
> mirror_type: "srv",
> signature_type: "fingerprints",
> fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
> enabled: yes
> }
Ah, that explains it. Right, you need to remove everything from there
except the "enabled: yes" part. Otherwise you're overriding the 15.0
release configuration and pointing back at the keys used on BETA5.
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