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    From Graham Perrin@grahamperrin@gmail.com to muc.lists.freebsd.stable on Sun Sep 7 21:23:31 2025
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    The freebsd-update(8) utility cannot be used to upgrade to 15.0-ALPHA1.

    Understood.

    On RELEASE, I'm slightly surprised that the fetch and upgrade commands
    of freebsd-update can be valid after conversion to pkgbase:

    <https://i.imgur.com/wjmSAVj.png>

    Is that expected, at this time?



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  • From Colin Percival@cperciva@tarsnap.com to muc.lists.freebsd.stable on Sun Sep 7 20:46:41 2025
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    On 9/7/25 13:23, Graham Perrin wrote:
    The freebsd-update(8) utility cannot be used to upgrade to 15.0-ALPHA1.

    Understood.

    On RELEASE, I'm slightly surprised that the fetch and upgrade commands of freebsd-update can be valid after conversion to pkgbase:

    <https://i.imgur.com/wjmSAVj.png>

    Is that expected, at this time?

    Hmm, the "refuse to operate on a pkgbase system" code should be present
    in FreeBSD 14.3.

    Ed, can you work with Graham to figure out why it didn't fire for him?
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  • From Ed Maste@emaste@freebsd.org to muc.lists.freebsd.stable on Mon Sep 8 09:40:03 2025
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    On Sun, 7 Sept 2025 at 16:46, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote:

    On 9/7/25 13:23, Graham Perrin wrote:
    The freebsd-update(8) utility cannot be used to upgrade to 15.0-ALPHA1.

    Understood.

    On RELEASE, I'm slightly surprised that the fetch and upgrade commands of freebsd-update can be valid after conversion to pkgbase:

    <https://i.imgur.com/wjmSAVj.png>

    Is that expected, at this time?

    Hmm, the "refuse to operate on a pkgbase system" code should be present
    in FreeBSD 14.3.

    Ed, can you work with Graham to figure out why it didn't fire for him?

    There was a bug in the pkgbase detection code that Mark fixed in main.
    I MFC'd it to stable/14 just now.


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  • From Graham Perrin@grahamperrin@gmail.com to muc.lists.freebsd.stable on Tue Sep 9 02:40:43 2025
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    If I'm not mistaken: when the 15.0-ALPHA1 installer uses base packages
    from FreeBSD Project-provided repos, the result is inferior
    15.0-PRERELEASE, for which there is (still) a
    `FreeBSD-kernel-generic-nodebug` package, and so on.

    Seeking 15 at <https://pkg-status.freebsd.org/builds?type=package> finds
    no jail name that begins with 15.

    Do we need additional builders, for alphas, betas, and release candidates?

    Maybe already work in progress; Colin's hope of "soon" at <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1naxy9v/comment/nd1dfui/>
    with regard to pkgbase packages shipping on the install images.

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    Thanks to /u/pavetheway91 at <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1naxy9v/comment/nd4z750/> for
    a related catch. (Someone else might have expressed things in a
    different way. The penny didn't drop, for me, until this morning.)



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