On 11/15/25 07:34, Mark Millard wrote:
Colin Percival <cperciva_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote on
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2025 07:58:59 UTC :
Note that this repository is disabled by default, but can still be used
by explicitly specifying it, e.g. "pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-base".
I and others reported that when FreeBSD-base is not enabled,
"pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-base" does not do the pkg update
part of the activity (as if a -U was present if it was an
enabled repository). This prevents "pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-base"
doing any upgrade that would depend on the pkg update results.
In other words, only enabled repositories get the
implicit pkg update activity, even when the -r REPONAME
is supplied.
I've been manually initially doing the sequence:
Edit to have FreeBSD-base enabled
pkg-static update -rFreeBSD-base
Edit to have FreeBSD-base disabled
I'll have to test further, but it looked to me like
# pkg update -r FreeBSD-base
# pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-base
worked? Maybe I had the repository enabled by accident when I was testing.
If necessary we'll have bsdinstall put "FreeBSD-base: { enabled: yes }"
into /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-base.conf when doing a pkgbase install.
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Colin Percival
FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
