> On 12 Dec 2025, at 00:47, Lexi Winter <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Peter Ankerstål wrote in <[email protected]>:
>> When using freebsd-update and there is a new patchlevel only the
>> affected files are updated. Lets say the patchlevel only contains a
>> fix for unbound. Then freebsd-update will only download and install
>> unbound-files.
>>
>> But when moving from one patchlevel to another using pkgbase all
>> installed packages from FreeBSD-base will be updated. But it would
>> have been enough to just upgrade the FreeBSD-unbound package.
>
>
> if neither of these explanations seem plausible, please record the
> output of 'pkg upgrade' the next time you run it, and post it here,
> because the behaviour you are observing is not intentional.
Yes, this time everything worked as expected
# pkg upgrade
Updating FreeBSD-ports repository catalogue...
Fetching data.pkg: 100% 10 MiB 10.8MB/s 00:01
Processing entries: 100%
FreeBSD-ports repository update completed. 36563 packages processed.
Updating FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository catalogue...
Fetching data.pkg: 100% 34 KiB 35.0kB/s 00:01
Processing entries: 100%
FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository update completed. 238 packages processed.
Updating FreeBSD-base repository catalogue...
Fetching data.pkg: 100% 80 KiB 81.5kB/s 00:01
Processing entries: 100%
FreeBSD-base repository update completed. 496 packages processed.
All repositories are up to date.
Checking for upgrades (10 candidates): 100%
Processing candidates (10 candidates): 100%
The following 9 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
Installed packages to be UPGRADED:
FreeBSD-kernel-generic: 15.0 -> 15.0p1 [FreeBSD-base]
FreeBSD-kernel-generic-dbg: 15.0 -> 15.0p1 [FreeBSD-base]
FreeBSD-rescue: 15.0 -> 15.0p1 [FreeBSD-base]
FreeBSD-runtime: 15.0 -> 15.0p1 [FreeBSD-base]
FreeBSD-runtime-dbg: 15.0 -> 15.0p1 [FreeBSD-base]
FreeBSD-src: 15.0 -> 15.0p1 [FreeBSD-base]
FreeBSD-src-sys: 15.0 -> 15.0p1 [FreeBSD-base]
FreeBSD-utilities: 15.0 -> 15.0p1 [FreeBSD-base]
FreeBSD-utilities-dbg: 15.0 -> 15.0p1 [FreeBSD-base]
Number of packages to be upgraded: 9
451 MiB to be downloaded.
Proceed with this action? [y/N]:
