Re: FreeBSD 15.0-BETA2 Now Available

From: vermaden <vermaden_at_interia.pl>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:08:34 UTC 
> No, pkgbase is considered "experimental" in 14

The announcement is/was for 15.x so I was thinking about 15.x - not for 14.

Thanks,
vermaden



Temat: Re: FreeBSD 15.0-BETA2 Now Available
Data: 2025-10-20 19:04
Nadawca: "Colin Percival" &lt;cperciva@freebsd.org>
Adresat: "vermaden" &lt;vermaden@interia.pl>; 
DW: "FreeBSD Release Engineering Team" &lt;re@freebsd.org>; "FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List" &lt;freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>; 

> 
>> On 10/20/25 09:32, vermaden wrote:
>> As the 'draft' for 'FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE Release Notes' -
https://freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/relnotes/ - contain information that
freebsd-update(8) will probably not going to exist in 15.0-RELEASE:
>> 
>>      "FreeBSD Update is probably not going to exist in
15.0-RELEASE!"
> 
> That's out of date.  I've fixed it.
> 
>> IMHO the 'announcement' mail should now also (or only) have
information how to properly update FreeBSD in a PKGBASE world with pkg(8)
commands.
> 
> No, pkgbase is considered "experimental" in 14; the intended upgrade
path
> for 14.x (and older) systems is
> 
> 1. FreeBSD Update to 15.
> 2. Run pkgbasify at some point during the lifetime of 15.x.
> 3. Use packages (probably via a freebsd-update front-end) to upgrade
to 16.
> 
> -- 
> Colin Percival
> FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead &amp; EC2 platform maintainer
> Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly
paranoid
> 
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