Running pkgbasify on a FreeBSD 15.0 jail

It’s time. All my hosts are on 15.0 and on pkgbase. Next, let’s move a jail to pkgbase. In this post: FreeBSD 15.0 the jail is named empty I’m following instructions based on the official docs and copying from a previous post: Running pkgbasify on FreeBSD 15.0 snapshot, not bectl Because it’a jail, I’m doing this for the filesystem of the jail. The commands are run on the jail host. data01/jails/empty 18.3G 7.08T 15.4G /jails/empty [23:48 r730-03 dvl ~] % sudo zfs snapshot data01/jails/empty@before-pkgbasify [23:57 r730-03 dvl ~] % Over in the jail Over in the jail, I did this: [23:49 empty root ~] # fetch https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/pkgbasify/raw/refs/heads/main/pkgbasify.lua pkgbasify.lua 21 kB 8695 kBps 00s [23:49 empty root ~] # chmod +x ./pkgbasify.lua [23:49 empty root ~] # tmux root@empty:~ # ./pkgbasify.lua Running this tool will irreversibly modify your system to use pkgbase. This tool and pkgbase are experimental and may result in a broken system. It is highly…