Updating a FreeBSD 15.0 jail to FreeBSD 15.1 (via pkgbase)

On Friday, I finished upgrading all my FreeBSD hosts from FreeBSD 15 to FreeBSD 15.1 (the first host I did is in this blog post ). Before that, I had run pkgbasify on each of those hosts. I also ran pkgbasify in a jail, but I learned that I can run it from the host, using the -j parameter. Today, I’m going to update that jail using pkgbase, from outside the jail. In this post: FreeBSD 15.0 (before) FreeBSD 15.1 (after; hopefully) The host is a Microsoft Azure instance FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE Upgrading Instructions I am going to follow the above instructions, duplicating their section names here, for easier cross reference. I will be running the commands on the host and using the -j parameter. My commands will use the MYJAIL variable to make your copy/paste easier. Just adjust the export statement to reference your jail. Introduction [22:31 r730-03 dvl ~] % export MYJAIL=empty [22:32 r730-03 dvl ~] % sudo pkg -j $MYJAIL which /usr/bin/uname /usr/bin/uname was installed by package…