Re: HEADS UP: pkgbase breakage 15.0-{PRERELEASE,ALPHA*,BETA*}

On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM Colin Percival <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Due to recent changes in FreeBSD.org infrastructure, systems still running
> 15.0-{PRERELEASE,ALPHA*,BETA*} (aka anything running 15.0 which hasn't
> upgraded to -RC* yet) will find that 'pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-base' fails,
> since the https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:foo/base_release_0/ repository
> (which used to be nightly builds signed with "pkg" keys) has been replaced
> by what used to be on pkgbase.freebsd.org.
>
> At present the best path forward for you is probably to use git to check out
> the src tree (head, stable/15, or releng/15.0; doesn't matter in this case)
> and run the commands
> # cp /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg/FreeBSD.conf.quarterly-release \
>        /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf
> # cp -R /usr/src/share/keys/pkgbase-15 /usr/share/keys/pkgbase-15
> to get the updated configuration file and signing keys.

I have a system running 15.0-BETA5 with pkgbase.  Before I followed
your advice, "pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-base" simply reported that "Your
packages are up to date", possibly because /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf
didn't have any entry for FreeBSD-base (but
/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-base.conf did).  After running these
commands, now "pkg update" fails with "pkg: No trusted public keys
found".  Could you please help me?

Also, what is the general procedure to upgrade a pkgbase system from
-BETA to -RELEASE?  It isn't described at
https://wiki.freebsd.org/action/show/pkgbase?action=show&redirect=PkgBase#Minor_version_upgrades
.