pkgbase

Help, please:

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current/2025-September/008892.html

I want to use uclcmd with a file that is initially empty:

/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf

#FreeBSD #pkg #pkgbase

FreeBSD: pkgbase: major upgrades

<https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/a58edbb8587af513a154ac01d922f611#file-pkgbase-major-upgrade-md-readme>

― a rough guide, for alpha testing on AMD64.

From <https://redd.it/1nlo8lp>:

❮ An obvious response to the roughness: it's more complicated than legacy freebsd-update(8) (for FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE). True; this is for alpha testing.

Please read the preamble before anything else. If you have any question, please don't hesitate to ask. ❯

#FreeBSD #pkg #pkgbase #alpha

After maybe a decade of "pkgbase", I doubt that the official new phrase "freebsd-base" will catch on and become more popular.

It's five syllables, plus a hyphen, which breaks tagging in (at least) Mastodon.

#pkgbase #freebsd-base #FreeBSD

freebsd-base: major upgrades: pkg-static: no trusted certificates

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1pdsyfo/freebsdbase_major_upgrades_pkgstatic_no_trusted/

#FreeBSD #pkgbase

Attention to meta packages alone is insufficient to prevent removal of the kernel.

In the attached screenshots, there was no force.

#FreeBSD #pkgbase #bug

Where does the #sysrc utility come from in a #FreeBSD 15-RELEASE system? I was playing around with an experimental #FreeBSD system which was installed with #pkg from the freebsd-base repository. The FreeBSD-set-minimal, FreeBSD-set-kernel plus a few other firmware packages were installed. The system boots and all works good as usual. But I found #sysrc is no where to find, pkg search sysrc gives py311-ansible-sysrc which does not seem right, freshports reports it is not in 15 but I have it in another system installed using the traditional method. Is it coming from FreeBSD-set-base itself? The the new #pkgbase world, how do I suppose to search where does each utility comes from?

#RunBSD #BSD #Unix #FOSS

Stumped upon same situation as two days ago where I found it extremely hard to to find where a #FreeBSD base utility comes from using a #pkgbase system. It was the sysrc utiity last weekend, and today mixer. They are there in the manual pages, in source code, but no easy way to find out where they end up in FreeBSD-xxx packages. Luckily when I used enough keywords Google Gemini actually was capable to point me to the FreeBSD-sound package.

#BSD #RunBSD #Unix

OK A bit late but I have successfully converted one of my test thin jails to pkgbase using pkgbasify and it all works. Only another 7 working jails to do and the host Beastie of course. So if I do decide to fully go for it tonight, You'll know what's wrong if I suddenly drop offline. 🤣
#FreeBSD #pkgbasify #pkgbase

https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/pkgbasify

Nice that's the first time I've upgraded my system using pkgbase and it's gone from FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p1 to FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p2 without issue.
Oh and why yes I'm still using CoW ( Wayland and behaves like fvwm by @thomasadam ) as my Window manager and loving it's many many configurations. This could take me a wee while to get just how I'd like but definitely loving that retro vibe!

#FreeBSD #Wayland #CoW #pkgbase