Show threadGraham Perrin4d ago

@thomrstrom thanks.

Choosing pkgbase positively transformed my use of CURRENT as a daily driver in February 2024 (<https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/673576>).

I never regretted the choice.

Cc @feld

#FreeBSD #pkgbase #pkg #CURRENT

2024: The year of desktop FreeBSD?

Yeah, try finding SPARC and POWER - based stuff... Those architectures have been off the market for awhile. Even Xeons and Epycs are x86_64... It's not (yet) that difficult to find them, actually. Go to the first bank out there. They still have them. The market shrunk considerably, but it's not...

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Show threadGraham PerrinJun 19

@marzlberger

2026: "freebsd-update is outdated (I should treat it as legacy), as is documentation for freebsd-update. There's no hint to use the FreeBSD-ports-kmods package repo before the first boot of 15.1." – <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1u8uh8v/comment/osbuo8f/>

2019: "… I'm not working on this code any more." – <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120552#c4>

There has been plenty of work since then – <https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/log/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.sh> – however I don't expect it to keep pace with modernisations such as FreeBSD-ports-kmods.

Cc @Tionisla @justine

#FreeBSD #update #upgrade #legacy #documentation #pkg #pkgbase

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Stephan Lichtenauer | נח סתוJun 18

*Big* shoutout to the #FreeBSD team that created #pkgbase and the 15.1 release.

I upgraded 3 different notebooks and a desktop today, each update just took a few minutes.

This was the first upgrade since a very long time that was completely smooth by just following the excellently documented steps in the upgrade notes (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.1R/upgrading/#upgrade-pkg).

No need to manually deal with incompatible DRM kmods anymore. No searching the web anymore to make sure one doesn't have to fix the system in single user mode.

And simply keeping the system patch level up to date with #pkg is very slick as well.

Thank you very much for all that!

#ThankYouThursday

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grahamperrinJun 13

FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE upgrade complete with pkgbase

Essentially, two commands:

  • pkg upgrade -Fqy
  • pkg upgrade -qUy && shutdown -r +30 "restarting with an upgraded kernel"

    • – it was not necessary to repeat the first.

    root@clean:~ # freebsd-version -kru ; uname -mvKU 15.1-RC3-p1 15.1-RC3-p1 15.1-RC3-p1 FreeBSD 15.1-RC3-p1 releng/15.1-n283561-e89f5d0df8fd GENERIC amd64 1501000 1501000 root@clean:~ # pkg upgrade -Fqy root@clean:~ # pkg upgrade -qUy Generating apropos(1) database for /usr/share/man... [...]

    https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/684

    FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE upgrade complete with pkgbase

    Essentially, two commands: pkg upgrade -Fqy pkg upgrade -qUy && shutdown -r +30 "restarting with an upgraded kernel" – it was not necessary to repeat the f...

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    grahamperrinJun 13

    FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE upgrade complete with pkgbase

    root@clean:~ # freebsd-version -kru ; uname -mvKU 15.1-RC3-p1 15.1-RC3-p1 15.1-RC3-p1 FreeBSD 15.1-RC3-p1 releng/15.1-n283561-e89f5d0df8fd GENERIC amd64 1501000 1501000 root@clean:~ # pkg upgrade -Fqy root@clean:~ # pkg upgrade -qUy Generating apropos(1) database for /usr/share/man... Generating apropos(1) database for /usr/share/openssl/man... Message from FreeBSD-local-unbound-15.1: -- After upgrading local-unbound, the configuration file should be regenerated [...]

    https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/682

    FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE upgrade complete with pkgbase

    root@clean:~ # freebsd-version -kru ; uname -mvKU 15.1-RC3-p1 15.1-RC3-p1 15.1-RC3-p1 FreeBSD 15.1-RC3-p1 releng/15.1-n283561-e89f5d0df8fd GENERIC amd64 1501...

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    Graham PerrinJun 11

    RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/115090704022436732

    Create tool for binary upgrades between major/minor versions using pkgbase · Laptop Project Board – FreeBSD Foundation

    <https://github.com/orgs/FreeBSDFoundation/projects/1/views/3?visibleFields=%5B%22Title%22%2C%22Labels%22%2C%22Status%22%5D&sliceBy%5Bvalue%5D=System+Management&pane=issue&itemId=119791718&issue=FreeBSDFoundation%7Cproj-laptop%7C83>

    From this week's update:

    "… This is still at the top of my TODO list for FreeBSD work however and work will be resumed as soon as I find the time."

    #FreeBSD #pkgbase #pkg #upgrade

    💚 @FreeBSDFoundation and all others involved  

    KaiXinJun 7
    Where does the #sysrc utility come from in a #FreeBSD 15-RELEASE system? I was playing around with an experimental #FreeBSD system which was installed with #pkg from the freebsd-base repository. The FreeBSD-set-minimal, FreeBSD-set-kernel plus a few other firmware packages were installed. The system boots and all works good as usual. But I found #sysrc is no where to find, pkg search sysrc gives py311-ansible-sysrc which does not seem right, freshports reports it is not in 15 but I have it in another system installed using the traditional method. Is it coming from FreeBSD-set-base itself? The the new #pkgbase world, how do I suppose to search where does each utility comes from?

    #RunBSD #BSD #Unix #FOSS