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

Lexi Winter <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:04:52 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.os.freebsd.stable
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote in <[email protected]>:
> Lexi Winter <[email protected]> writes:
> > 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.
> 
> Anton did not have a pkgbase system and never ran `pkgbasify`.  He
> upgraded from 14.4 to 15.0 using `freebsd-update` then ran `pkg install
> FreeBSD-set-minimal` after reading your email about the new pam and zstd
> packages.

yes, i know; i was responding to Mark's question about whether upgrading
FreeBSD-runtime from 14 to 15 would overwrite master.passwd.

in OP's case, the only way "pkg install FreeBSD-set-minimal" would work
is if they had somehow enabled the FreeBSD-base repository, which is
disabled by default.

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