Helpful wiki

From: Chris <chris_at_tellme3times.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 22:05:58 UTC
Hi,


I came across  https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase#setup while researching 
an issue I had where freebsd-update messed up a remote system. I should 
say I messed up the remote system by skipping releases.

My issue was that I could no longer build ports because it would fail on 
devel/gettext-runtime. It would also fail on builworld and buildkernel.

This is a production system which I thought I would need to rebuid. The 
system was upgraded to 14.2-RELEASE and I followed the wiki since I 
understood it would fix the issues I was having.

After the "Six steps below are essential" I issued a "shutdown -r now" 
since very little else was configured. The system didn't respond to ssh. 
When I finally got to the location I saw that the system was running but 
had no Internet access because the /etc/rc.firewall was also replaced.

I think that a note on the wiki to remind admins that rc.firewall may 
also need to be replaced, as a 7th essential step, when working on a 
remote system, may be helpful.


All said and done this saved me having to rebuild that system. Thank you.