Re: upgrading from 13.2 to 14.0 with pkgbase

On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 at 21:02, Wall, Stephen <stephen.wall@redcom.com> wrote:

> Is it expected to be able to do a `pkg upgrade` on a 13.2 system with
> pkgbase installed, and wind up with a functional 14.0 system?  (Assuming
> you’ve got repos set up correctly)
>
> My last attempt to do so left a couple 13.2 packages installed, and was
> missing some 14.0 packages (including, I think, FreeBSD-openssl-lib, which
> is not good for the `pkg` command).
>

There has been a fair bit of rearrangement which means that you may need to
install using e.g. "pkg install -g 'FreeBSD-*'". You can probably recover
from missing FreeBSD-openssl-lib by using pkg-static to install it.

Doug