Re: freebsd-update and pkgbase

From: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2025 11:56:54 UTC
On 19/08/2025 17:02, Mark Johnston wrote:

> Adding freebsd-arch@ and re@ to see if anyone not on -pkgbase has
> opinions here.

Omitting freebsd-arch@ (for no more than two lists),

> On Wed, Aug 06, 2025 at 05:17:19PM -0400, Mark Johnston wrote:
>> The future of freebsd-update post 15.0 isn't totally clear. …


I assume that it will be absent from, or unusable with, 15.0-RELEASE.

From <https://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/15.0ISSUES#assigned>: "… needs to 
be removed or at least neutered".

>> I propose extending freebsd-update …

Gut feeling: for a successor to freebsd-update, it will help to have a 
distinctive name for the tool.

Thanks