Stefano Marinelli
boosted
FreeBSD Installer: using the installer's offline packages
FreeBSD Installer: using the installer's offline packages
Stefano Marinelli
boosted
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.
Stefano Marinelli
boosted
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. ❯
Michael Dexter
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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
<https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-pkg/2025-September/001466.html> | <https://mail-archive.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4e12afdc-7bcf-4a25-94b3-fe1562469ed9>
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
<https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-pkg/2025-September/001466.html> | <https://mail-archive.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4e12afdc-7bcf-4a25-94b3-fe1562469ed9>
Stefano Marinelli
boosted
New 𝗧𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 [Torrent on FreeBSD] article on vermaden.wordpress.com blog.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/08/31/torrent-on-freebsd/
#verblog #aria2c #freebsd #pkg #qbittorrent #torrent #transmission
New 𝗧𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 [Torrent on FreeBSD] article on vermaden.wordpress.com blog.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/08/31/torrent-on-freebsd/
#verblog #aria2c #freebsd #pkg #qbittorrent #torrent #transmission
Stefano Marinelli
boosted
FreeBSD package repository name changes
https://reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1n40dbd/freebsd_repository_name_changes/
FreeBSD package repository name changes
https://reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1n40dbd/freebsd_repository_name_changes/
Stefano Marinelli
boosted
Using pkgbasify to repair a broken installation of FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE
https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/9570092c127bd43777961b6f016e75ba
Using pkgbasify to repair a broken installation of FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE
https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/9570092c127bd43777961b6f016e75ba
Stefano Marinelli
boosted
Has your OS ever refused to install the MariaDB client package or the MySQL client package due to a conflict with the other?
It feels like it should be possible to have both, but unfortunately I have yet to see a solution for this.
For a subset of these cases, all that you want is just to have the client tools such as the mariadb/ mysql CLI and the mariadb-dumper/ mysqldumper backup programs co-existing on the same OS. (I.e. you don't care about the static/dynamic libmariadbclient/libmysqlclient libs etc).
So, I decided to write up my solutions for this:
https://dbdemon.com/installing_mariadb_and_mysql_clients_on_same_unix_host/
Has your OS ever refused to install the MariaDB client package or the MySQL client package due to a conflict with the other?
It feels like it should be possible to have both, but unfortunately I have yet to see a solution for this.
For a subset of these cases, all that you want is just to have the client tools such as the mariadb/ mysql CLI and the mariadb-dumper/ mysqldumper backup programs co-existing on the same OS. (I.e. you don't care about the static/dynamic libmariadbclient/libmysqlclient libs etc).
So, I decided to write up my solutions for this:
https://dbdemon.com/installing_mariadb_and_mysql_clients_on_same_unix_host/
Stefano Marinelli
boosted
I was just about to complain why #pkgin in #NetBSD about having long commands like install, search and list and no short form like install for #pkg in #FreeBSD and then pkgin without any argument slaps me in the face and say no you can just use in se ls for install search and list
#BSD #RUNBSD #Unix #FOSS
Stefano Marinelli
boosted
I was just about to complain why #pkgin in #NetBSD about having long commands like install, search and list and no short form like install for #pkg in #FreeBSD and then pkgin without any argument slaps me in the face and say no you can just use in se ls for install search and list
#BSD #RUNBSD #Unix #FOSS