On 9/27/25 13:59, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
Am 27.09.2025 um 22:34 schrieb Colin Percival <cperc...@freebsd.org>:
=== Upgrading ===
FREEBSD-UPDATE SHOULD NOT BE USED TO UPGRADE TO 15.0-ALPHA4 AT PRESENT.
Does that mean updated packages for base will be available, eventually,
and I can `pkg upgrade` ALPHA3 to ALPHA4 - or is that always a fresh install?
The freebsd-update bits for ALPHA4 should arrive later in the weekend, and
freebsd-update from ALPHA3 to ALPHA4 will be safe.
Upgrading using pkgbase is probably fine, subject to the usual considerations
such as "you're getting a nightly build of stable/15, not precisely the bits
released as ALPHA4".
Lexi wrote:
what's not supported is upgrading to 15.0 (from any release) using
freebsd-update(8), due to a bug that can install libraries in the
wrong order and leave the system broken. this will be fixed in a
later alpha release. (actually, i thought the fix was in ALPHA4,
but possibly it didn't make it or hasn't received enough testing
yet.)
The fix is in ALPHA4, but freebsd-update needs to be fixed on the system
being upgraded *from*. So there will be an Errata Notice coming out soon
to provide the fixed freebsd-update on FreeBSD {13.5, 14.2, 14.3}.
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Colin Percival
FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
