New 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗣𝗞𝗚𝗕𝗔𝗦𝗘 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗼𝗿 𝗨𝗽𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲𝘀 [FreeBSD PKGBASE Minor Upgrades] article on vermaden.wordpress.com blog.

[vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

New 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗣𝗞𝗚𝗕𝗔𝗦𝗘 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗼𝗿 𝗨𝗽𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲𝘀 [FreeBSD PKGBASE Minor Upgrades] article on vermaden.wordpress.com blog.

FreeBSD PKGBASE Minor Upgrades

The PKGBASE way of things on FreeBSD is still not fully mature (and officially marked as experimental). I tried to cover all PKGBASE things in the Brave New PKGBASE World article but I need to add one another thing. One of the things freebsd-update(8) did was upgrades between minor releases - like from 15.0 to…

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[markmcb@mas.to]

@vermaden Worked for me. One additional step I did after the successful boot: activate the “NEW" boot environment, rename the former default to “15.0-RELEASE-p8”, and rename “NEW" to “default”. I think if you don't activate the BE you'll boot into the old one on the next reboot.

[grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@markmcb also, please note the clarification (from Colin Percival) and other comments under <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1t8rt8o/freebsd_pkgbase_minor_upgrades/>. In particular:

"You forgot the FreeBSD-ports-kmods repo."

[vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@markmcb

Added some info about that there - thank You for the input

[vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

Added UPDATE 1 with information how to do upgrade FreeBSD with PKGBASE w/o modifying the config files.