Re: FreeBSD 15.1-BETA1: FreeBSD-base

Colin Percival <[email protected]> Sun, 3 May 2026 15:21:07 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.os.freebsd.devel.pkgbase,gmane.os.freebsd.stable
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On 5/3/26 01:23, Graham Perrin wrote:
> Whilst base packages are served from pkg.freebsd.org, the fingerprints line of 
> FreeBSD.conf can be overridden as shown below.
> 
> root@blah:~ # cat /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
> FreeBSD-base {
>      enabled = yes;
>      fingerprints = "/usr/share/keys/pkg";
> }

No.  Do not do this.  The package set which is currently sitting at
   https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:*/base_release_1/
is not the 15.1-BETA1 package set.  Do not use it and do not change
the keys you use to verify FreeBSD-base packages.

-- 
Colin Percival
FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid