Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2025 19:36:51 +0000 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> To: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>, FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pkgbasify on 14.3 or on 15.0? Message-ID: <0100019ae091540a-5eb428ef-f974-42e4-a0ae-0a12774a3b4b-000000@email.amazonses.com> In-Reply-To: <732A2394-8F18-4802-8CAC-3D724DF2A31A@punkt.de> References: <732A2394-8F18-4802-8CAC-3D724DF2A31A@punkt.de>
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On 12/2/25 11:31, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > now that 15.0 is released, what is the recommended order of > tasks when I intend to upgrade a traditionally installed 14.3 > system to pkgbase 15.0? > > freebsd-update before pkgbasify or the other way round? > > I figure for the latter I would need to somehow install pkgbasify on 14.3. > It's not in the FreeBSD pkg repo. Use FreeBSD Update to upgrade to 15.0. At some point before 16.0 you should pkgbasify but there's no rush since FreeBSD Update will be supported for the lifetime of 15.x. Using pkgbase on 14.3 has always been considered "experimental"; I'm glad people tried it out and found some of the bugs in pkgbase early, but it's not the path I would recommend to users. -- Colin Percival FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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