Re: PKGBASE Upgrade 15.0-RELEASE to 15.1-BETA2

> Yeah, we realized earlier today that we forgot about that.
> We're working on it.

I was able to upgrade FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE to 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/${ABI}/base_release_1",
  mirror_type: "srv",
  signature_type: "fingerprints",
  fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkgbase-${VERSION_MAJOR}",
  enabled: yes
}

Update pkg(8) databases.

host # pkg update -f

Create new ZFS BE and chroot(8) into it.

host # beadm create NEW

host # beadm mount NEW /tmp/NEW

host # chroot /tmp/NEW/

BE # mount -t devfs devfs /dev

First upgrade pkg(8) tool.

BE # pkg upg -r FreeBSD-ports pkg

Then upgrade FreeBSD Base System with PKGBASE.

BE # pkg upg -r FreeBSD-base

BE # exit

host # umount /tmp/NEW/dev

host # beadm list
BE      Active Mountpoint  Space Created
default NR     /          630.2M 2026-03-13 13:29
NEW     -      /tmp/NEW   854.2M 2026-05-09 23:15

host # reboot

At loader(8) hit '8. Boot Environments' and then hit '2. Active' to see something like this there:

  2. Active: zfs:zroot/ROOT/NEW (2 of 2)

Then hit [ENTER].

After boot you will se 15.0-RELEASE upgraded to 15.1-BETA2 system.

host # uname -prism
FreeBSD 15.1-BETA2 amd64 amd64 GENERIC



hope that helps.

Regards,
vermaden