Re: ream [odd Subject note added, should have still said: Upgrading base alone (was: pkgbase(8))]

Mark Millard <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hackers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2/22/26 19:40, Mark Millard wrote:
> On 2/22/26 18:35, Graham Perrin wrote:
>> On 23/02/2026 01:22, Theron wrote:
>>> … Performing base system upgrade without caring what has happened or
>>> will happen to ports packages is the feature that should be preserved.  …
>>
>>
>> pkg upgrade --repository FreeBSD-base
>>
>>
>> Issue 2414 is probably fixed, I have not seen symptoms in recent months.
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 
> Have you deliberately had installed port-packages that depend on files
> being replaced or removed for FreeBSD-base ?
> 
> This kind of port-package removal activity is more likely for things
> like a 15.0-RELEASE* to 15.1-RELEASE (releng/15.0/ tracking) type of
> FreeBSD-base upgrade than for to a 15.0-RELEASE-p* upgrade, for example.
> Of course, a 15.0-RELEASE* to a 16.0-RELEASE* upgrade will likely
> involve far more potential for far more examples.
> 
> As far as frequency goes, stable/15/ tracking updates would likely have
> more frequent examples than releng/15.0/ would.
> 
> In summary: Which type of evidence is your judgment based on? (I've not
> been doing anything that gives me any notable evidence of the status.)
> 
> 
> There is also the issue of "pkg upgrade --repository FreeBSD-base"  not
> doing an implicit pkg update from the upstream status information for
> FreeBSD-base unless FreeBSD-base is already enabled at the time
> --despite how such was documented.
> 
> 

This is the 2nd time that I've noticed one of my replies ends up with an
odd Subject line --when I'd done no deliberate editing of the Subject
line text.

Sorry for the oddity.


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