Re: different outcome freebsd-version -kru

From: Dave Cottlehuber <dch_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 07:05:28 UTC 
On Tue, 26 May 2026, at 12:51, 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:
>    pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest
>    pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/kmods_quarterly_${VERSION_MINOR}
>    pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/base_release_${VERSION_MINOR}

As vermaden says use latest/quarterly consistently. This is a sufficient
/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf, the values are merged with /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf:

FreeBSD-base:  { enabled: yes }
FreeBSD-ports: { url: "https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest" }
FreeBSD-ports-kmods: { url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/kmods_latest_${VERSION_MINOR}", enabled: yes }

> On one System I got freebsd-version -kru:
> 15.0-RELEASE-p9
> 15.0-RELEASE-p9
> 15.0-RELEASE-p9

This is consistent with base pkg install after upgrading.

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

And this is not. Are there any other files in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/*.conf ?

Or is it possible you used `base_latest` at any point in your pkg testing?

That would seem to be the most likely explanation.

A+
Dave