There has been a bit of confusion for those that are trying to follow the #FreeBSD 15.0 Alpha/Beta releases while using #pkgbase. The repo URL is incorrect and will continue to track snapshot. To reverse this so it tracks all releases within the 15.0 track, modify the FreeBSD-base.conf repo to use base_release_0 instead of base_latest URL:
--- /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-base.conf.sample 2025-10-20 20:10:29.264198000 +1100
+++ /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-base.conf 2025-10-20 20:10:39.721732000 +1100
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ FreeBSD-base: {
FreeBSD-base: {
- url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/base_latest",
+ url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/base_release_0",
mirror_type: "srv",
signature_type: "fingerprints",
fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
There has been a bit of confusion for those that are trying to follow the #FreeBSD 15.0 Alpha/Beta releases while using #pkgbase. The repo URL is incorrect and will continue to track snapshot. To reverse this so it tracks all releases within the 15.0 track, modify the FreeBSD-base.conf repo to use base_release_0 instead of base_latest URL:
--- /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-base.conf.sample 2025-10-20 20:10:29.264198000 +1100
+++ /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-base.conf 2025-10-20 20:10:39.721732000 +1100
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ FreeBSD-base: {
FreeBSD-base: {
- url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/base_latest",
+ url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/base_release_0",
mirror_type: "srv",
signature_type: "fingerprints",
fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA4 Now Available
<https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-September/003265.html>
― FREEBSD-UPDATE SHOULD NOT BE USED TO UPGRADE TO 15.0-ALPHA4 AT PRESENT.
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1ns5onx/comment/ngjiwl9/> pictures a successful major upgrade that used pkg instead of freebsd-update.
FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA4 Now Available
<https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-September/003265.html>
― FREEBSD-UPDATE SHOULD NOT BE USED TO UPGRADE TO 15.0-ALPHA4 AT PRESENT.
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1ns5onx/comment/ngjiwl9/> pictures a successful major upgrade that used pkg instead of freebsd-update.
FreeBSD: pkgbase: major upgrades
― a rough guide, for alpha testing on AMD64.
From <https://redd.it/1nlo8lp>:
❮ An obvious response to the roughness: it's more complicated than legacy freebsd-update(8) (for FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE). True; this is for alpha testing.
Please read the preamble before anything else. If you have any question, please don't hesitate to ask. ❯
FreeBSD: pkgbase: major upgrades
― a rough guide, for alpha testing on AMD64.
From <https://redd.it/1nlo8lp>:
❮ An obvious response to the roughness: it's more complicated than legacy freebsd-update(8) (for FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE). True; this is for alpha testing.
Please read the preamble before anything else. If you have any question, please don't hesitate to ask. ❯
sysctl vm.pageout_oom_seq=120
― for FreeBSD on slow storage.
Pictured: a 2828-step forced reinstallation of 1534 packages – 568 FreeBSD-base, 966 FreeBSD-ports – with root-on-ZFS, 8 G swap, and less than 1 GB memory.
FreeBSD 15.0-PRERELEASE on AMD64 with KDE Plasma and applications, SDDM, and a few other things from the ports collection.
ZFS is not tuned in any way.
zfs --version
zfs-2.4.0-rc1-FreeBSD_g00dfa094a
zfs-kmod-2.4.0-zfs-2.4.0-rc1-FreeBSD_g00dfa094a
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sysctl vm.pageout_oom_seq=120
― for FreeBSD on slow storage.
Pictured: a 2828-step forced reinstallation of 1534 packages – 568 FreeBSD-base, 966 FreeBSD-ports – with root-on-ZFS, 8 G swap, and less than 1 GB memory.
FreeBSD 15.0-PRERELEASE on AMD64 with KDE Plasma and applications, SDDM, and a few other things from the ports collection.
ZFS is not tuned in any way.
zfs --version
zfs-2.4.0-rc1-FreeBSD_g00dfa094a
zfs-kmod-2.4.0-zfs-2.4.0-rc1-FreeBSD_g00dfa094a
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