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

On 12/17/25 15:34, Alan Somers wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM Colin Percival <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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?

What do you have in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-base.conf ?

> 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

More or less what I wrote above.  It's also mentioned in the release notes:
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/relnotes/#upgrade-rc

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Colin Percival
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