Re: FreeBSD 15.0-RC2 Now Available

From: Bakul Shah <bakul_at_iitbombay.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 01:20:12 UTC 
Enabling FreeBSD-base in /etc/pkg/FreebSD.conf and removing
/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-base.conf fixed the problem.
[It was pointing to pkg.FreeBSD.org not pkgbase.FreeBSD.org]

> On Nov 19, 2025, at 4:55 PM, Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org> wrote:
> 
> I was able to update to 15.0-RC1 using pkg update && pkg upgrade
> but this seems to not pick up 15.0-RC2...
> 
> I noticed the following was added to /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf
> in the upgrade to 15.0-RC1
> 
> FreeBSD-base: {
>  url: "pkg+https://pkgbase.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/base_release_${VERSION_MINOR}",
>  mirror_type: "srv",
>  signature_type: "fingerprints",
>  fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkgbase-${VERSION_MAJOR}",
>  enabled: no
> }
> 
> I tried chaning enabled to yes as well as removing it since
> /ust/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-base.conf has the same stuff
> but that didn't help.