New FreeBSD pkgbase-update(8) Tool

We all know that PKGBASE is ‘the’ way for the FreeBSD future – but there are some things that need to be polished. FreeBSD 15.x is the last version that will allows usage of freebsd-update(8) command to update/upgrade FreeBSD system. Starting with FreeBSD 16.0-RELEASE the PKGBASE will be the ONLY way of installing/updating/upgrading the FreeBSD Base System. First 15.2-BETA1 version of upcoming FreeBSD 15.2-RELEASE has been announced. I was really waiting to see new upgrade instructions and features with FreeBSD 15.2-BETA1 message … but I was disappointed. Instead of something brain dead easy as freebsd-update(8) update instructions such as: freebsd # freebsd-update upgrade -r 15.2-BETA1 freebsd # freebsd-update install (...) We got something like that … instead: freebsd # pkg upgrade -yr FreeBSD-ports pkg freebsd # mkdir /tmp/upgrade-15.2 freebsd # echo 'FreeBSD-base: { url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/base_release_2_beta1" }' > /tmp/upgrade-15.2/upgrade.conf freebsd # pkg -o…

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