Re: freebsd-update(8) on a pkgbasify-enabled system

From: Ed Maste <emaste_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2025 13:40:03 UTC 
On Sun, 7 Sept 2025 at 16:46, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/7/25 13:23, Graham Perrin wrote:
> >  > The freebsd-update(8) utility cannot be used to upgrade to 15.0-ALPHA1.
> >
> > Understood.
> >
> > On RELEASE, I'm slightly surprised that the fetch and upgrade commands of
> > freebsd-update can be valid after conversion to pkgbase:
> >
> > <https://i.imgur.com/wjmSAVj.png>
> >
> > Is that expected, at this time?
>
> Hmm, the "refuse to operate on a pkgbase system" code should be present
> in FreeBSD 14.3.
>
> Ed, can you work with Graham to figure out why it didn't fire for him?

There was a bug in the pkgbase detection code that Mark fixed in main.
I MFC'd it to stable/14 just now.