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 15.1 … but it seems that this part was not covered by PKGBASE team as Colin just notified me. I wrote in the past about upgrading FreeBSD within ZFS Boot Environments here: Upgrade FreeBSD with ZFS Boot Environments Other FreeBSD Version in ZFS Boot Environment … and it will be more or less the same this time. I was able to upgrade FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE to FreeBSD 15.1-BETA2 with ZFS Boot Environments like that: host # uname -prism FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE amd64 amd64 GENERIC Create /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf file with following contents. host # cat /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf FreeBSD-base: { url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/base_release_1", mirror_type:…
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