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 #alpha #test #install #upgrade #pkg #pkgbase

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 #alpha #test #install #upgrade #pkg #pkgbase

FreeBSD: pkgbase: major upgrades

<https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/a58edbb8587af513a154ac01d922f611#file-pkgbase-major-upgrade-md-readme>

― 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 #pkg #pkgbase #alpha

FreeBSD: pkgbase: major upgrades

<https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/a58edbb8587af513a154ac01d922f611#file-pkgbase-major-upgrade-md-readme>

― 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 #pkg #pkgbase #alpha

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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#FreeBSD #pkg #pkgbase #memory #swap

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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#FreeBSD #pkg #pkgbase #memory #swap

For swift, friendly, professional bug reporting and responses, special thanks to:

— /u/vivekkhera in Reddit

— Lexi Winter

— Baptiste Daroussin.

@lw @bapt cc @emaste

#ThankYouTuesday#FreeBSD #pkgbase

For swift, friendly, professional bug reporting and responses, special thanks to:

— /u/vivekkhera in Reddit

— Lexi Winter

— Baptiste Daroussin.

@lw @bapt cc @emaste

#ThankYouTuesday#FreeBSD #pkgbase

#FreeBSD #pkgbase

#FreeBSD #pkgbase

An in-place #FreeBSD pkg-base conversion completed successfully. I wouldn't want to do that to a large fleet (not sure how you'd ansible it), but will be a lot easier for new builds. #pkgbase

An in-place #FreeBSD pkg-base conversion completed successfully. I wouldn't want to do that to a large fleet (not sure how you'd ansible it), but will be a lot easier for new builds. #pkgbase

As #FreeBSD moves from far-from-perfect freebsd-update(8) to #PKGBASE that will be handled by separate pkg(8) repository - keep in mind that #FreeBSD will still have its #Base#System separate from third party pkg(8) packages.

Some details below.

As #FreeBSD moves from far-from-perfect freebsd-update(8) to #PKGBASE that will be handled by separate pkg(8) repository - keep in mind that #FreeBSD will still have its #Base#System separate from third party pkg(8) packages.

Some details below.

upgraded my #freebsd boxes with #pkgbase this is the future

upgraded my #freebsd boxes with #pkgbase this is the future

pkgbase is actually already available in 14.3 but … erm … we haven’t quite got the documentation sorted yet. Working on it!

pkgbase is actually already available in 14.3 but … erm … we haven’t quite got the documentation sorted yet. Working on it!