Re: question about updating to 15.0

Marco Moock <mm_at_dorfdsl.de> wrote on
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2025 14:39:37 UTC :

> On 06.12.2025 15:15 Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> > Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> writes:
> > > IIRC after the kernel update freebsd-update suggests to reboot and
> > > then it installs the base packages. After that it recommended to
> > > run pkg bootstrap -f.
> > > It didn't say explicitly that upgrading all the packages with pkg
> > > is a necessary step before the reboot. 
> > 
> > Here is the exact text that it prints:
> > 
> > Completing this upgrade requires removing old shared object files.
> > Please rebuild all installed 3rd party software (e.g., programs
> > installed from the ports tree) and then run
> > 'freebsd-update [options] install' again to finish installing
> > updates.
> 
> I read that and thought this only applies to manually installed stuff
> from the ports tree, not packages installed via pkg.

Installing port-packages is an alternate way of installing ports
without having to build them: building the package on the FreeBSD
build server used involved building the port.

But main now has an adjusted wording that will be MFC'd to stable:

-Please rebuild all installed 3rd party software (e.g., programs
-installed from the ports tree) and then run
+Please upgrade or rebuild all installed 3rd party software (e.g.,
+programs installed with pkg or from the ports tree) and then run

So freebsd-update will be more explicit in the future.


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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com