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  • Re: FreeBSD 14.5-BETA3 Now Available

    From Mark Millard@marklmi@yahoo.com to muc.lists.freebsd.stable on Sat Aug 22 15:08:22 2026
    From Newsgroup: muc.lists.freebsd.stable

    On 8/22/26 07:09, Colin Percival wrote:
    The third beta build of the 14.5-RELEASE release cycle is now available.

    Installation images are available for:

    o 14.5-BETA3 amd64 GENERIC
    o 14.5-BETA3 i386 GENERIC
    o 14.5-BETA3 powerpc GENERIC
    o 14.5-BETA3 powerpc64 GENERIC64
    o 14.5-BETA3 powerpc64le GENERIC64LE
    o 14.5-BETA3 powerpcspe MPC85XXSPE
    o 14.5-BETA3 armv7 GENERICSD
    o 14.5-BETA3 aarch64 GENERIC
    o 14.5-BETA3 aarch64 RPI
    o 14.5-BETA3 aarch64 PINE64
    o 14.5-BETA3 aarch64 PINE64-LTS
    o 14.5-BETA3 aarch64 PINEBOOK
    o 14.5-BETA3 aarch64 ROCK64
    o 14.5-BETA3 aarch64 ROCKPRO64
    o 14.5-BETA3 riscv64 GENERIC
    o 14.5-BETA3 riscv64 GENERICSD
    . . .

    [There seems to be a gotcha if one has not already got the
    ports based pkg install . . .]


    My attempt to use freebsd-update hangs, apparently waiting for
    unprompted user input:

    # freebsd-update -r 14.5-BETA3 upgrade
    load: 0.08 cmd: pkg 3628 [ttyin] 29.18r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 7736k
    ^C

    So, looking:

    # sh -x `which freebsd-update` -r 14.5-BETA3 upgrade
    . . .
    + eval 'IDSIGNOREPATHS=$IDSIGNOREPATHS_saved'
    + IDSIGNOREPATHS=' /usr/share/man/cat /usr/share/man/whatis /var/db/locate.database /var/log'
    + eval '_=$BACKUPKERNEL_saved'
    + _=''
    + [ -z '' ]
    + eval '_=$BACKUPKERNELDIR_saved'
    + _=''
    + [ -z '' ]
    + eval '_=$BACKUPKERNELSYMBOLFILES_saved'
    + _=''
    + [ -z '' ]
    + check_pkgbase
    + pkg -r / -N
    load: 0.39 cmd: pkg 3867 [ttyin] 358.92r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 7756k
    ^C

    This was on a RPi4B already running 14.5-BETA2 (installed via the SD
    image but to a USB3 media).

    I will note that I'd not installed any ports or such yet, so:

    # pkg -v
    The package management tool is not yet installed on your system.
    Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: y
    Bootstrapping pkg from pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:aarch64/quarterly, please wait... Verifying signature with trusted certificate
    pkg.freebsd.org.2013102301... done
    Installing pkg-2.7.5...
    Extracting pkg-2.7.5: 100%
    2.7.5

    (So well behind 2.8.4.)

    Retrying:

    # freebsd-update -r 14.5-BETA3 upgrade
    src component not installed, skipped
    Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
    Fetching metadata signature for 14.5-BETA2 from update1.freebsd.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done.
    Fetching 1 metadata files... done.
    Inspecting system... done.

    The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed:
    kernel/generic kernel/generic-dbg world/base world/base-dbg world/lib32 world/lib32-dbg

    The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed:

    Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y

    Fetching metadata signature for 14.5-BETA3 from update1.freebsd.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done.
    Fetching 1 metadata patches. done.
    Applying metadata patches... done.
    Fetching 1 metadata files... done.
    Inspecting system... done.
    Preparing to download files... done.
    Fetching 1427 patches [. . .] done.
    Applying patches...



    I'll stop with that and report separately if more shows up.
    --
    ===
    Mark Millard
    marklmi at yahoo.com


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