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Patrick M. Hausen wrote in <67CF60AB-5011-4D25-A9FF-74B85CF31732@punkt.de>:

I looked for the answer in the announcement and in the release notes
without success. Would someone be so kind to enlighten me?

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.1R/upgrading/#upgrade-pkg

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would be nice to link to/mention in announcement, like we previously used to do -------- Original Message --------
On Tuesday, 06/16/26 at 16:55 Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org> wrote:
Patrick M. Hausen wrote in <67CF60AB-5011-4D25-A9FF-74B85CF31732@punkt.de>:

I looked for the answer in the announcement and in the release notes
without success. Would someone be so kind to enlighten me?

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.1R/upgrading/#upgrade-pkg
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On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 4:05rC>PM <Wismos@proton.me> wrote:

would be nice to link to/mention in announcement, like we previously used to do

So do something that has already been done?

For instructions on installing FreeBSD or updating an existing machine to 15.1-RELEASE please see:
https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/15.1R/installation/

And there "Upgrading with Base System Packages" section.
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On 6/16/26 04:24, Lexi Winter wrote:

Patrick M. Hausen wrote in <67CF60AB-5011-4D25-A9FF-74B85CF31732@punkt.de>:

I looked for the answer in the announcement and in the release notes
without success. Would someone be so kind to enlighten me?

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.1R/upgrading/#upgrade-pkg

[These are general notes. I'm not in need of help for my context.]

Step 1 is very ZFS specific, without mentioning that it would not apply
to UFS contexts.

QUOTE
bectl create -r pre-15.1
END QUOTE


Also, the -r may not be appropriate to all configurations.


Step 4 ("pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-ports-kmods") has the
(potential/temporary?) issue that https://people.freebsd.org/~dbaio/pkg-master-report.html shows no
updates after 2026-May-21.

I expect that means that the FreeBSD os 15.1-RELEASE ones are not in
place yet.


Step 6 ("sysctl machdep.bootmethod") can have the issue:

# sysctl machdep.bootmethod
sysctl: unknown oid 'machdep.bootmethod'

In that case because of it being aarch64.


I only mention UEFI boot loading below, as I have no examples of BIOS
boot loading . . .

Step 7 ("efibootmgr -v" as a start):

Can have the likes of:

# efibootmgr -v
BootCurrent: 0000

That is from a Windows Dev Kit 2023.

On a RPi5 booted via a draft/partial EDK2:

# efibootmgr -v
. . .
+Boot0002* UEFI Timetec 35TTTN2242GE3P-1TB REDACTED 1
dp: PcieRoot(0x1)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/NVMe(0x1,62-82-62-54-17-4c-e0-00)
opt/x: 0000: 4e ac 08 81 11 9f 59 4d 85 0e e2 1a 52 2c 59 b2
opt/a: N%ac%08%81%11%9fYM%85%0e%e2%1aR,Y%b2
attr: 0x1<ACTIVE,>
categ: 0<BOOT>
. . .

(No file path displayed for the FreeBSD efi loader used.) Another one
USB booted is similar:

+Boot0002* UEFI JMicron TREBLEET REDACTED
dp: VenHw(0d51905b-b77e-452a-a2c0-eca0cc8d514a,000030001f00000000)/USB(0x2,0x0)
opt/x: 0000: 4e ac 08 81 11 9f 59 4d 85 0e e2 1a 52 2c 59 b2
opt/a: N%ac%08%81%11%9fYM%85%0e%e2%1aR,Y%b2
attr: 0x1<ACTIVE,>
categ: 0<BOOT>
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On Jun 16, 2026, at 9:17rC>AM, Patrick M. Hausen <hausen@punkt.de> wrote:

Hi all,

Am 16.06.2026 um 15:03 schrieb Wismos@proton.me:

would be nice to link to/mention in announcement, like we previously used to do

-------- Original Message --------
On Tuesday, 06/16/26 at 16:55 Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org> wrote:
Patrick M. Hausen wrote in <67CF60AB-5011-4D25-A9FF-74B85CF31732@punkt.de>: >>> I looked for the answer in the announcement and in the release notes

without success. Would someone be so kind to enlighten me?

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.1R/upgrading/#upgrade-pkg

The page hierarchy on the web site is a bit off.

On the Release Information page https://www.freebsd.org/releases/ the line for 15.1 does
not link the upgrading document.

Neither is it linked when you click on 15.1 in the left hand menu to land at the announcement:

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.1R/announce/

Only when you manually visit https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.1R/ will you get links
to all relevant files.

I suggest to link to that last page from the top level .../releases/ left hand menu instead of
going directly to .../announce/.

I had no idea a new website was in the works, but if anyone with some decision-making power there is listening, PLEASE bring back the front page links to current releases.
And regarding this thread, a link to the handbook entry on what pkgbase is and how to use it would be nice on any release/upgrading related pages/errata.
Thanks,
Charles

Kind regards,
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I am following the link "https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.1R/upgrading/#upgrade-pkg", but
the command "pkg -oABI=FreeBSD:15:$(uname -p) -oOSVERSION=1501000
upgrade -r FreeBSD-base" is not working on my 15.0.

1. The handbook does not say that "FreeBSD-base" must be enabled which
is disabled by default. This is very confusing.
2. Mike provided the steps to enable it in the chain above but it
still does not work for me. It reports that "FreeBSD-base repository
is up to date." "-oOSVERSION=1501000" has no effect.
3. I managed to upgrade my Lenovo yesterday but I actually forced the
minor version replacing ${VERSION_MINOR} with 1 and and used signature_type:"none".
4. I am trying to do the right thing on my second install, can you help?


On Tue, 16 Jun 2026 at 23:58, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> wrote:

On 6/16/2026 9:03 AM, Wismos@proton.me wrote:

would be nice to link to/mention in announcement, like we previously used to do

-------- Original Message --------
On Tuesday, 06/16/26 at 16:55 Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org> wrote:
Patrick M. Hausen wrote in <67CF60AB-5011-4D25-A9FF-74B85CF31732@punkt.de>:

I looked for the answer in the announcement and in the release notes
without success. Would someone be so kind to enlighten me?

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.1R/upgrading/#upgrade-pkg

I just tried this on my test VM and it worked without issue.

bectl create -r pre-15.1
pkg upgrade -yr FreeBSD-ports pkg
pkg -oABI=FreeBSD:15:amd64 -oOSVERSION=1501000 upgrade -r FreeBSD-base
find /etc /usr/local/etc -name '*.pkgnew' -ls

cd /boot/efi/efi/boot/
cp /boot/loader.efi bootx64.efi

0{cage2}# freebsd-version
15.1-RELEASE
0{cage2}#

cat /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf
#
# To disable a repository, instead of modifying or removing this file,
# create a /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf file, e.g.:
#
# mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos
# echo "FreeBSD-ports: { enabled: no }" > /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
# echo "FreeBSD-ports-kmods: { enabled: no }" >> /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
#
# Note that the FreeBSD-base repository is disabled by default.
#

FreeBSD-ports: {
url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",
mirror_type: "srv",
signature_type: "fingerprints",
fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
enabled: yes
}
FreeBSD-ports-kmods: {
url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/kmods_latest${VERSION_MINOR}",
mirror_type: "srv",
signature_type: "fingerprints",
fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
enabled: yes
}
FreeBSD-base: {
url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/base_release_${VERSION_MINOR}",
mirror_type: "srv",
signature_type: "fingerprints",
fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkgbase-${VERSION_MAJOR}",
enabled: no
}

0{cage2}# cat /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/*
FreeBSD-ports-kmods: { enabled: no }
FreeBSD-base: { enabled: yes }
0{cage2}#

---Mike

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Tam=E1s Nagy wrote in <CACyGuju_TdrjZRsxhxo3D1ui7OWvU01DPrNKzf2-SzGpSnE5Ag@= mail.gmail.com>:

I am following the link "https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.1R/upgrading/#upgrade-pkg", but
the command "pkg -oABI=3DFreeBSD:15:$(uname -p) -oOSVERSION=3D1501000
upgrade -r FreeBSD-base" is not working on my 15.0.
=20
1. The handbook does not say that "FreeBSD-base" must be enabled which
is disabled by default. This is very confusing.

if FreeBSD-base is not enabled, then you are not using pkgbase and
should not follow the pkgbase upgrade instructions.

(or you've somehow managed to install from pkgbase then disable the FreeBSD-base repository, but i don't know how that could happen.)

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Hi Lexi,
You are absolutely correct. This was my mistake. I relied on AI
instead of checking the handbook and confused a pkgbase system with a distribution-set-based installation.
Apologies for the noise.
On Wed, 17 Jun 2026 at 15:36, Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org> wrote:

Tam|is Nagy wrote in <CACyGuju_TdrjZRsxhxo3D1ui7OWvU01DPrNKzf2-SzGpSnE5Ag@mail.gmail.com>:

I am following the link "https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.1R/upgrading/#upgrade-pkg", but
the command "pkg -oABI=FreeBSD:15:$(uname -p) -oOSVERSION=1501000
upgrade -r FreeBSD-base" is not working on my 15.0.

1. The handbook does not say that "FreeBSD-base" must be enabled which
is disabled by default. This is very confusing.

if FreeBSD-base is not enabled, then you are not using pkgbase and
should not follow the pkgbase upgrade instructions.

(or you've somehow managed to install from pkgbase then disable the FreeBSD-base repository, but i don't know how that could happen.)

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