Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:46:20 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht <lists@cmplx.uk> To: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, pkgbase@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] stable/15: new base packages for PAM, zstd Message-ID: <aejfPFFoJtahvEbn@cmplx.uk> In-Reply-To: <583fb3e0-0a81-4ad5-9d1a-34bf3f82a14f@yahoo.com> References: <adTq6tMP4GWQS35e@amaryllis.le-fay.org> <aeedOZ7VcQAOsQCV@cmplx.uk> <3847a70c-f2d8-4c4a-a5f0-56a4a90168b0@yahoo.com> <aeh6ddAuDClL4YFn@cmplx.uk> <583fb3e0-0a81-4ad5-9d1a-34bf3f82a14f@yahoo.com>
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 05:47:09AM -0700, Mark Millard wrote: > On 4/22/26 00:36, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 12:52:43PM -0700, Mark Millard 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? > > After pkgbase updates, one should always scan for *.pkgsave and *.pkgnew > files (say via find) and then deal with possibly > merging/updating/restoring the content --or possibly just deleting the > *.pkgsave/*.pkgnew file, as appropriate based on the content. > > > 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? > > > > Was I wrong to do "pkg install FreeBSD-set-minimal" on 15.0-RELEASE-p4? > > > > Shall I just copy the /etc/master.passwd.pkgsave back to /etc/master.passwd? > > > Do not forget to do something like: > > # pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd.pkgsave > > That would regenerate /etc/spwd.db (secure database) , /etc/pwd.db > (insecure database), and /etc/master.passwd --and the -p means it would > also regenerate a matching /etc/passwd as well. > > Once you know the password related files are okay, you may want to > delete /etc/master.passwd.pkgsave . > > > You should also check if this pkgbase update or prior ones left any > other *.pkgsave or *.pkgnew files for you do deal with for finishing the > file updates involved. pkgbase does not deal with picking how some > configuration file updates should be done. Mark, thank you. I missed that this is documented in: https://wiki.freebsd.org/action/show/pkgbase?action=show&redirect=PkgBase#A.pkgsave_files Antonhome | help
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