Hi all,I have a system running 15.0-BETA5 with pkgbase. Before I followed
Due to recent changes in FreeBSD.org infrastructure, systems still running 15.0-{PRERELEASE,ALPHA*,BETA*} (aka anything running 15.0 which hasn't upgraded to -RC* yet) will find that 'pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-base' fails, since the https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:foo/base_release_0/ repository (which used to be nightly builds signed with "pkg" keys) has been replaced
by what used to be on pkgbase.freebsd.org.
At present the best path forward for you is probably to use git to check out the src tree (head, stable/15, or releng/15.0; doesn't matter in this case) and run the commands
# cp /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg/FreeBSD.conf.quarterly-release \
/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf
# cp -R /usr/src/share/keys/pkgbase-15 /usr/share/keys/pkgbase-15
to get the updated configuration file and signing keys.
On 12/17/25 15:34, Alan Somers wrote:FreeBSD-base: {
On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 3:55rC>PM Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> wrote:
Due to recent changes in FreeBSD.org infrastructure, systems still running >> 15.0-{PRERELEASE,ALPHA*,BETA*} (aka anything running 15.0 which hasn't
upgraded to -RC* yet) will find that 'pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-base' fails, >> since the https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:foo/base_release_0/ repository
(which used to be nightly builds signed with "pkg" keys) has been replaced >> by what used to be on pkgbase.freebsd.org.
At present the best path forward for you is probably to use git to check out
the src tree (head, stable/15, or releng/15.0; doesn't matter in this case)
and run the commands
# cp /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg/FreeBSD.conf.quarterly-release \
/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf
# cp -R /usr/src/share/keys/pkgbase-15 /usr/share/keys/pkgbase-15
to get the updated configuration file and signing keys.
I have a system running 15.0-BETA5 with pkgbase. Before I followed
your advice, "pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-base" simply reported that "Your packages are up to date", possibly because /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf
didn't have any entry for FreeBSD-base (but /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-base.conf did). After running these commands, now "pkg update" fails with "pkg: No trusted public keys
found". Could you please help me?
What do you have in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-base.conf ?
Also, what is the general procedure to upgrade a pkgbase system from
-BETA to -RELEASE? It isn't described at https://wiki.freebsd.org/action/show/pkgbase?action=show&redirect=PkgBase#Minor_version_upgrades
More or less what I wrote above. It's also mentioned in the release notes: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/relnotes/#upgrade-rc
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On 12/18/25 06:58, Alan Somers wrote:Thanks, that fixed it. FWIW, this is my only pkgbase system so far.
On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 6:54rC>PM Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> wrote:
On 12/17/25 15:34, Alan Somers wrote:
On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 3:55rC>PM Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> wrote:
Due to recent changes in FreeBSD.org infrastructure, systems still running
15.0-{PRERELEASE,ALPHA*,BETA*} (aka anything running 15.0 which hasn't >>>> upgraded to -RC* yet) will find that 'pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-base' fails,
since the https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:foo/base_release_0/ repository
(which used to be nightly builds signed with "pkg" keys) has been replaced
by what used to be on pkgbase.freebsd.org.
At present the best path forward for you is probably to use git to check out
the src tree (head, stable/15, or releng/15.0; doesn't matter in this case)
and run the commands
# cp /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg/FreeBSD.conf.quarterly-release \
/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf
# cp -R /usr/src/share/keys/pkgbase-15 /usr/share/keys/pkgbase-15
to get the updated configuration file and signing keys.
I have a system running 15.0-BETA5 with pkgbase. Before I followed
your advice, "pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-base" simply reported that "Your
packages are up to date", possibly because /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf
didn't have any entry for FreeBSD-base (but
/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-base.conf did). After running these
commands, now "pkg update" fails with "pkg: No trusted public keys
found". Could you please help me?
What do you have in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-base.conf ?
FreeBSD-base: {
url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/base_release_0",
mirror_type: "srv",
signature_type: "fingerprints",
fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
enabled: yes
}
Ah, that explains it. Right, you need to remove everything from there
except the "enabled: yes" part. Otherwise you're overriding the 15.0
release configuration and pointing back at the keys used on BETA5.
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