Re: PKGBASE Upgrade 15.0-RELEASE to 15.1-BETA2

On Tue, 12 May 2026, at 01:01, John D Groenveld wrote:
> In message <7bc43ede-d9df-4b1f-abf1-fefbd4e9f0a9@yahoo.com>, Mark Millard write
> s:
>>I got that wrong. For example, in 1404500 the "5" (or [6-9]) indicates
>>"-STABLE" So: 14.4-STABLE . It is another thing that the ABI does not
>>indicate of itself.
>>
>>It is really the last 2 digits that I should have referenced as
>>potentially ignored.
>
> I *think* I would prefer if pkg(8) just honored VERSION_MINOR from
> the command line rather than having to set ABI and OSVERSION per
> pkg.conf(5).
> <URL:https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/blob/main/docs/pkg.conf.5>
> <URL:https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/blob/main/libpkg/pkg_config.c>
>
> Arguably, this should do the right thing in the OP's case and upgrade
> the boot environment to the 15.1 base and kmods:
> hypothetically# pkg -o VERSION_MINOR=1 upgrade ...
>
> John
> groenveld@acm.org

This was my thought too, so it matches the config file.

https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/pull/2674

Users needing to divine the meaining of 1501000 seems unnecessary.

A+
Dave