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  • Re: pkgbasify on 14.3 or on 15.0?

    From Colin Percival@cperciva@tarsnap.com to muc.lists.freebsd.stable on Tue Dec 2 19:36:51 2025
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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.
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    FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
    Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid



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  • From Mark Linimon@linimon@portsmon.org to muc.lists.freebsd.stable on Tue Dec 2 14:41:45 2025
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    I took the liberty of copypasting this text to a new wiki page, https://wiki.freebsd.org/Upgrading . I also added it as the
    first link on the front page. I think we are going to need it ...

    mcl


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  • From =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?=@des@FreeBSD.org to muc.lists.freebsd.stable on Wed Dec 3 15:25:04 2025
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    Mark Linimon <linimon@portsmon.org> writes:
    I took the liberty of copypasting this text to a new wiki page, https://wiki.freebsd.org/Upgrading . I also added it as the
    first link on the front page. I think we are going to need it ...
    Can you please add something about not running the third `freebsd-update install` (or `make delete-old-libs` if upgrading from source) until
    _after_ all ports and packages have been updated?
    DES
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  • From Mark Linimon@linimon@portsmon.org to muc.lists.freebsd.stable on Wed Dec 3 08:36:10 2025
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    I am not a domain expert here.

    Someone will need to tell me exactly what text to add, or, do
    it themselves.

    mcl


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