> No, pkgbase is considered "experimental" in 14 The announcement is/was for 15.x so I was thinking about 15.x - not for 14.
Thanks, vermaden Temat: Re: FreeBSD 15.0-BETA2 Now Available Data: 2025-10-20 19:04 Nadawca: "Colin Percival" <[email protected]> Adresat: "vermaden" <[email protected]>; DW: "FreeBSD Release Engineering Team" <[email protected]>; "FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List" <[email protected]>; > >> On 10/20/25 09:32, vermaden wrote: >> As the 'draft' for 'FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE Release Notes' - https://freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/relnotes/ - contain information that freebsd-update(8) will probably not going to exist in 15.0-RELEASE: >> >> "FreeBSD Update is probably not going to exist in 15.0-RELEASE!" > > That's out of date. I've fixed it. > >> IMHO the 'announcement' mail should now also (or only) have information how to properly update FreeBSD in a PKGBASE world with pkg(8) commands. > > No, pkgbase is considered "experimental" in 14; the intended upgrade path > for 14.x (and older) systems is > > 1. FreeBSD Update to 15. > 2. Run pkgbasify at some point during the lifetime of 15.x. > 3. Use packages (probably via a freebsd-update front-end) to upgrade to 16. > > -- > Colin Percival > FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer > Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid > > > >
