Discovering the hash part of a file name of a remote package (was: How to install base-dbg post-install?)

On 13/06/2026 18:01, Mark Millard wrote:
> On 6/13/26 06:24, Graham Perrin wrote:
>> On 20/05/2026 01:18, Craig Leres wrote:
>>> …
>>>
>>> Is there a more straightforward way to install base-dbg?
>>
>> An example for 15.1-RELEASE on AMD64, with pkg 2.7.5:
>>
>> pkg install -U https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_release_1/Hashed/FreeBSD-set-base-dbg-15.1~8d76e9b704.pkg
>>
>>
>> How did you figure out the: FreeBSD-set-base-dbg-15.1~8d76e9b704.pkg
>> In particular the: 8d76e9b704


On a pkgbase system with the package already installed:

pkg clean -a

pkg -d upgrade -fFy FreeBSD-set-base-dbg

Output from the second command included (for example):


DBG(1)[2328]> (fetch) Request to fetch 
pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_release_1/./Hashed/FreeBSD-set-base-dbg-15.1~8d76e9b704.pkg
DBG(1)[2328]> (fetch) libfetch> connecting
DBG(1)[2328]> (fetch) libfetch> fetching from: 
https://pkgmir.geo.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_release_1/Hashed/FreeBSD-set-base-dbg-15.1~8d76e9b704.pkg 
with opts "i"


Then I changed pkgmir.geo.freebsd.org to pkg.freebsd.org


More simply, if already cached:


root@clean:~ # pkg clean -an | grep FreeBSD-set-base-dbg
         /var/cache/pkg/FreeBSD-set-base-dbg-15.1~8d76e9b704.pkg
         /var/cache/pkg/FreeBSD-set-base-dbg-15.1.pkg
root@clean:~ #


I'm fairly certain that a much more methodical approach was posted a few 
months ago, I doubt that I'll be able to find it. IIRC it might have 
involved extracting data.pkg and then working with its content.