Re: different outcome freebsd-version -kru

From: Mark Millard <marklmi_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2026 16:17:43 UTC
On 5/26/26 05:51, Manfred Koch wrote:
> Hi Community,
> 
> I installed FreeBSD 15.0 on two divergent physical systems with pkgbase.
> On both is under /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-base.conf with the
> content:
> 
> FreeBSD-ports: {
>   url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",
>   mirror_type: "srv",
>   signature_type: "fingerprints",
>   fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
>   enabled: yes
> }
> FreeBSD-ports-kmods: {
>   url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/
> kmods_quarterly_${VERSION_MINOR}",
>   mirror_type: "srv",
>   signature_type: "fingerprints",
>   fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
>   enabled: yes
> }
> FreeBSD-base: {
>   url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/base_release_${VERSION_MINOR}",
>   mirror_type: "srv",
>   signature_type: "fingerprints",
>   fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkgbase-${VERSION_MAJOR}",
>   enabled: yes
> }
> 
> On one System I got freebsd-version -kru:
> 15.0-RELEASE-p9
> 15.0-RELEASE-p9
> 15.0-RELEASE-p9

On the above system, what does:

# uname -apKU

report?

Also:

# strings /boot/kernel*/kernel | grep -e '-RELEASE\>' -e '\-STABLE\>'

> 
> On the other System freebsd-version -kru:
> 15.0-STABLE
> 15.0-STABLE
> 15.0-RELEASE-p9

On the above system, what does:

# uname -apKU

report?

Also:

# strings /boot/kernel*/kernel | grep -e '-RELEASE\>' -e '\-STABLE\>'

> 
> pkg repos shows on every system:
> 
> FreeBSD-ports: {
>     url             : "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/
> latest",
>     enabled         : yes,
>     priority        : 0,
>     mirror_type     : "SRV",
>     signature_type  : "FINGERPRINTS",
>     fingerprints    : "/usr/share/keys/pkg"
>   }
> FreeBSD-ports-kmods: {
>     url             : "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/
> kmods_quarterly_0",
>     enabled         : yes,
>     priority        : 0,
>     mirror_type     : "SRV",
>     signature_type  : "FINGERPRINTS",
>     fingerprints    : "/usr/share/keys/pkg"
>   }
> FreeBSD-base: {
>     url             : "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/
> base_release_0",
>     enabled         : yes,
>     priority        : 0,
>     mirror_type     : "SRV",
>     signature_type  : "FINGERPRINTS",
>     fingerprints    : "/usr/share/keys/pkgbase-15"
>   }
> 
> Has somebody a notion what is going on here?
> 
> Thank you
> Manfred
> 
> 
> 
> 


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Mark Millard
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