Re: HEADS UP: 15.0 pkgbase, manual action required on upgrade

On 5/27/25 18:18, Lexi Winter wrote:
> hello,
> 
> if you use 15.0 with pkgbase, there are two recent changes which might
> require manual intervention following "pkg upgrade":
> 
> 7672d8d81ac1 moved ctld into the new FreeBSD-ctl package.  if you use
> ctld, you should install this package.
> 
> cc8c77c9e036 moved toolchain utilities (including ar, nm, ...) into the
> new FreeBSD-toolchain package.  if you need to build software, you
> should install the new package
> 
> cc8c77c9e036 also removed the existing FreeBSD-elftoolchain package.
> this should be automatically replaced by the new FreeBSD-toolchain if it
> was installed, but you may want to make sure it's properly removed:
> 
> 	# pkg remove -g 'FreeBSD-elftoolchain*'

appreciate the heads up!  i can confirm this works on my current box i 
migrated over from source builds to pkg base without any issues.

agree with later posts in the thread that this sounds like a great 
use-case for pkg messages :)

-pete


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Pete Wright
pete@nomadlogic.org