Re: pkg-static: Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected.

From: Dan Mahoney (Ports) <freebsd_at_gushi.org>
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:53:36 UTC

> On Sep 9, 2025, at 11:33 AM, Ian FREISLICH <ianfreislich@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 2025-09-09 14:29, Kyle Evans wrote:
>> On 9/9/25 13:27, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>> 
>>>> Am 09.09.2025 um 20:11 schrieb Ian FREISLICH <ianfreislich@gmail.com>:
>>>> Every release this happens. pkg bootstrap -f doesn't fix it either because there's no FreeBSD:16:amd64/latest.
>>> 
>>> There is no release 16 (yet), so there are no packages.
>>> 
>>> You have to build from ports of you run -current.
>>> 
>>> HTH,
>>> Patrick
>> We certainly build packages for -current, but the branch happened only a little bit ago; it's another 12-14+ day
>> cycle to get a fresh package set and alleviate the above condition.
> 
> In fairness, at the branch point, 15-prerelease and 16-current ports trees are the same. Can't the whole set just be copied with the index updated to 16?

So presumably, there will be a pkgbase install for 16 at some point, so I can create a poudriere jail to build packages -- does that already exist?

-Dan