Re: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/installation/ : should it have some notes for folk using a pkgbase 14.* ? relnotes/#upgrade or relnotes/#upgrade-rc ?

In reply to: Mark Millard : "Re: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/installation/ : should it have some notes for folk using a pkgbase 14.* ? relnotes/#upgrade or relnotes/#upgrade-rc ?"
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From: Marco Moock <mm_at_dorfdsl.de>
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:10:37 UTC

Am 03.12.2025 um 07:54:52 Uhr schrieb Mark Millard:

> On Dec 3, 2025, at 06:23, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> > Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> writes:  
> >> As stands the instructions do not even mention freebsd-update
> >> being inappropriate.  
> > 
> > That would be because it isn't.  
> 
> I'm confused. The context was starting from a pkgbase 14.3 . But:
> 
> https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/usr.sbin/freebsd-update?id=cf1aba2857
> 
> freebsd-update: refuse to operate on a pkgbase system
> 
> FreeBSD-update is not compatible with packaged base.

That is intended. If you already have a system with pkgbase, then
freebsd-update will refuse operation because the packages are handled
by pkg.

-- 
Gruß
Marco

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