Re: HEADS-UP: pkgbase pkg upgrade breaks systems Re: after updating to latest, pkg base segfaults and leaves me unbootable

In reply to: Lexi Winter : "Re: HEADS-UP: pkgbase pkg upgrade breaks systems Re: after updating to latest, pkg base segfaults and leaves me unbootable"
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From: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 23:52:31 UTC

On 09/08/2025 11:59, Lexi Winter wrote:

> … as a workaround, i suggest anyone upgrading pkgbase split the upgrade
> into two steps:
>
> 	pkg upgrade -r base	# upgrade base
> 	pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD	# upgrade ports
>
> replace 'base' with whatever your pkgbase repository is called. …


<https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/2414>

Removals of non-base packages for upgrades that specify the FreeBSD-base 
repository alone

– mentioned last month, 
<https://mail-archive.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?f930f1c2-fe84-4bee-9b7c-83cfbaeec146>.