Re: FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA4 Now Available

Patrick M. Hausen wrote in <31032FA8-F176-4E34-97A3-EBD6762B0BE0@punkt.de>:
> > Am 27.09.2025 um 22:34 schrieb Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>:
> > FREEBSD-UPDATE SHOULD NOT BE USED TO UPGRADE TO 15.0-ALPHA4 AT PRESENT.
> 
> Does that mean updated packages for base will be available, eventually,
> and I can `pkg upgrade` ALPHA3 to ALPHA4 - or is that always a fresh install?

upgrading from previous 15.0 alphas with "pkg upgrade" is supported and
should work fine; if not, that's a bug.  however, do read UPDATING as
there were quite a few changes to pkgbase during the 15.0 release cycle.

the pkg.f.o packages are currently built twice a day, so if ALPHA4 isn't
available there yet, it will be shortly.

what's not supported is upgrading to 15.0 (from any release) using
freebsd-update(8), due to a bug that can install libraries in the
wrong order and leave the system broken.  this will be fixed in a
later alpha release.  (actually, i thought the fix was in ALPHA4,
but possibly it didn't make it or hasn't received enough testing
yet.)