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Date:      Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:18:23 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Peter_Ankerst=C3=A5l?= <peter@pean.org>
To:        Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Customize what packages get installed
Message-ID:  <83F14D1A-FCD0-4E63-8138-52017DCA5F40@pean.org>
In-Reply-To: <aTtYD8eSaBRL46VY@amaryllis.le-fay.org>
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> On 12 Dec 2025, at 00:47, Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> Peter Ankerstål wrote in <A83ED87A-DA17-4B44-803B-A7EEC5176634@pean.org>:
>> When using freebsd-update and there is a new patchlevel only the
>> affected files are updated. Lets say the patchlevel only contains a
>> fix for unbound. Then freebsd-update will only download and install
>> unbound-files.
>> 
>> But when moving from one patchlevel to another using pkgbase all
>> installed packages from FreeBSD-base will be updated. But it would
>> have been enough to just upgrade the FreeBSD-unbound package.
> 
> 
> if neither of these explanations seem plausible, please record the
> output of 'pkg upgrade' the next time you run it, and post it here,
> because the behaviour you are observing is not intentional.

Yes, this time everything worked as expected 

# pkg upgrade
Updating FreeBSD-ports repository catalogue...
Fetching data.pkg: 100%   10 MiB  10.8MB/s    00:01    
Processing entries: 100%
FreeBSD-ports repository update completed. 36563 packages processed.
Updating FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository catalogue...
Fetching data.pkg: 100%   34 KiB  35.0kB/s    00:01    
Processing entries: 100%
FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository update completed. 238 packages processed.
Updating FreeBSD-base repository catalogue...
Fetching data.pkg: 100%   80 KiB  81.5kB/s    00:01    
Processing entries: 100%
FreeBSD-base repository update completed. 496 packages processed.
All repositories are up to date.
Checking for upgrades (10 candidates): 100%
Processing candidates (10 candidates): 100%
The following 9 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

Installed packages to be UPGRADED:
	FreeBSD-kernel-generic: 15.0 -> 15.0p1 [FreeBSD-base]
	FreeBSD-kernel-generic-dbg: 15.0 -> 15.0p1 [FreeBSD-base]
	FreeBSD-rescue: 15.0 -> 15.0p1 [FreeBSD-base]
	FreeBSD-runtime: 15.0 -> 15.0p1 [FreeBSD-base]
	FreeBSD-runtime-dbg: 15.0 -> 15.0p1 [FreeBSD-base]
	FreeBSD-src: 15.0 -> 15.0p1 [FreeBSD-base]
	FreeBSD-src-sys: 15.0 -> 15.0p1 [FreeBSD-base]
	FreeBSD-utilities: 15.0 -> 15.0p1 [FreeBSD-base]
	FreeBSD-utilities-dbg: 15.0 -> 15.0p1 [FreeBSD-base]

Number of packages to be upgraded: 9

451 MiB to be downloaded.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: 

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