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

On 9/9/25 13:33, Ian FREISLICH 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?
> 
> Ian
> 

You could maybe make that assumption, but it's not really that easy; the ABI ("FreeBSD:15:amd64") is encoded in each pkg itself along with a FreeBSD_version annotation for the exact version from sys/param.h at the time of the build.  You'd also have new failures from bad version checks that will be ignored because we just copied the previous version's set, which then gets a bit confusing if we suddenly lose them in an actual -CURRENT build ("Well, we had 16-CURRENT packages for them before, why don't we now?").

Thanks,

Kyle Evans