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  • manual action required updating from 15.0-ALPHA to 15-STABLE with pkgbase

    From Lexi Winter@ivy@freebsd.org to muc.lists.freebsd.stable on Mon Oct 13 08:08:10 2025
    From Newsgroup: muc.lists.freebsd.stable


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    i sent this to pkgbase@ but, in hindsight, should have copied stable@ as
    well. this affects you if you installed with pkgbase from 15.0-ALPHA
    media and now want to track 15-STABLE, or if you were already tracking 15-STABLE and upgraded during the ALPHA release cycle.

    this does not affect people who don't use pkgbase.

    ----- Forwarded message from Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org> -----

    =46rom: Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org>
    Subject: manual action required updating from 15.0-ALPHA to 15-STABLE with = pkgbase
    To: pkgbase@freebsd.org
    Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2025 17:55:36 +0100
    X-Original-To: lexi.freebsd@amaryllis.le-fay.org
    X-Original-To: pkgbase@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org

    hello,

    during the 15.0-ALPHA period, the packages were published with a version similar to "15.0.a4.YYYYMMDD". now that stable/15 has become 15-STABLE,
    the packages are published with a version similar to "15.snapYYYYMMDD".

    unfortunately, pkg considers "15.0.a4" to be newer than "15.snap", so
    you will not see any package updates for those packages, even though
    they are available.

    to work around this, run "pkg upgrade -f -r FreeBSD-base", which will
    forcibly reinstall all packages with the version from the repository.
    this should only need to be done once, since there are no "a4" packages
    left in the repository.

    this only affects people who use the base_latest repository and want to
    track 15-STABLE. if you want to track releng/15.0 instead, switch from
    the base_latest repository to the base_release_0 repository. in that
    case, no manual action sould be required.



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