Re: [HEADS UP] stable/15: new base packages for PAM, zstd

Lexi Winter <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:22:40 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.os.freebsd.stable
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Mark Millard wrote in <[email protected]>:
> A 14.x FreeBSD-runtime package would be replaced by a 15.0-RELEASE-p4
> package would it not (if that pkgbase -> pkgbase upgrade is the type of
> upgrade that was done)? Would that produce a .pkgsave file for the
> /etc/master.passwd (given the RE-unsupported nature of 14.* pkgbase)?

from pkg's point of view, it doesn't matter what the old version
number of the package is; if the package is being upgraded, it will
not overwrite configuration files.

this would only happen if master.passwd was not marked as @config
in 14, but i'm fairly sure it was.  a couple of files were missing
@config, but that wasn't one of them.

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