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Graham Perrin
@grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

pkg query --evaluate '%o = base' '%o\n\n%e\n\n----\n\n'

Why does it not get descriptions of installed base packages?

pkg-query(8)

<https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg-query&sektion=8&manpath=freebsd-ports>

#FreeBSD #pkg #help

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Graham Perrin
@grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

pkg query --evaluate '%o = base' '%o\n\n%e\n\n----\n\n'

Why does it not get descriptions of installed base packages?

pkg-query(8)

<https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg-query&sektion=8&manpath=freebsd-ports>

#FreeBSD #pkg #help

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@vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

Fresh 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝗞𝗚𝗕𝗔𝗦𝗘 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 [Brave New PKGBASE World] article on vermaden.wordpress.com blog.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/brave-new-pkgbase-world/

#verblog #bectl #desktop #freebsd #laptop #packages #pkg #pkgbase #server #update #upgrade

𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚗

Brave New PKGBASE World

Let me put this into first sentence to make things clear – I like PKGBASE and I think it is improvement over freebsd-update(8) and base.txz and kernel.txz – what we currently have in Fr…
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@vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

Fresh 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝗞𝗚𝗕𝗔𝗦𝗘 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 [Brave New PKGBASE World] article on vermaden.wordpress.com blog.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/brave-new-pkgbase-world/

#verblog #bectl #desktop #freebsd #laptop #packages #pkg #pkgbase #server #update #upgrade

𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚗

Brave New PKGBASE World

Let me put this into first sentence to make things clear – I like PKGBASE and I think it is improvement over freebsd-update(8) and base.txz and kernel.txz – what we currently have in Fr…
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Graham Perrin
@grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Possible regression in FreeBSD Installer:

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1nyu2ky/comment/nhym5mw/

#FreeBSD #alpha #pkg #KDE #Plasma

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Graham Perrin
@grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA5 Now Available

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-October/003330.html

For freebsd-update:

― "THE STEP OF UPDATING YOUR EXISTING SYSTEM FIRST IS NECESSARY …"

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1nyu2ky/comment/nhx8x53/

Screenshots below are of a multi-desktop environment system that used pkg for the update from ALPHA4 to ALPHA5.

#alpha #Cinnamon #MATE #KDE #Plasma #SDDM #Firefox #FreeBSD #Foundation

FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA5 Now Available

Screenshot: MATE on FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA5 in Oracle VirtualBox on Kubuntu 25.04
Screenshot: MATE on FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA5 in Oracle VirtualBox on Kubuntu 25.04
Screenshot: MATE on FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA5 in Oracle VirtualBox on Kubuntu 25.04
Screenshot: Firefox in Cinnamon.
Screenshot: Firefox in Cinnamon.
Screenshot: Firefox in Cinnamon.
Screenshot: SDDM menu, aiming for Cinnamon.
Screenshot: SDDM menu, aiming for Cinnamon.
Screenshot: SDDM menu, aiming for Cinnamon.
Screenshot: KDE Plasma and applications on FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA5. Using pkg to quietly install four more desktop environments: Cinnamon, GNOME, MATE, Xfce …
Screenshot: KDE Plasma and applications on FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA5. Using pkg to quietly install four more desktop environments: Cinnamon, GNOME, MATE, Xfce …
Screenshot: KDE Plasma and applications on FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA5. Using pkg to quietly install four more desktop environments: Cinnamon, GNOME, MATE, Xfce …
Graham Perrin
@grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Possible regression in FreeBSD Installer:

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1nyu2ky/comment/nhym5mw/

#FreeBSD #alpha #pkg #KDE #Plasma

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Graham Perrin
@grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

FreeBSD Installer: using the installer's offline packages

https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/7a72a9c8eeedca80c266e279f057b47a#file-freebsd-installer-offline-packages-md-readme

#FreeBSD #packages #pkg

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@grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

FreeBSD Installer: using the installer's offline packages

https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/7a72a9c8eeedca80c266e279f057b47a#file-freebsd-installer-offline-packages-md-readme

#FreeBSD #packages #pkg

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Graham Perrin
@grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

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

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@grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

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

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Graham Perrin
@grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp last month

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

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@grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp last month

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

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Graham Perrin
@grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

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>

#FreeBSD #pkg #pkgbase #memory #swap

Screenshot: vt(4) after forcing reinstallation of all packages.
Screenshot: vt(4) after forcing reinstallation of all packages.
Screenshot: vt(4) after forcing reinstallation of all packages.
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@grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

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>

#FreeBSD #pkg #pkgbase #memory #swap

Screenshot: vt(4) after forcing reinstallation of all packages.
Screenshot: vt(4) after forcing reinstallation of all packages.
Screenshot: vt(4) after forcing reinstallation of all packages.
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vermaden
@vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

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

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@vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

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

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Graham Perrin
@grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

FreeBSD package repository name changes

https://reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1n40dbd/freebsd_repository_name_changes/

#FreeBSD #pkg

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@grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

FreeBSD package repository name changes

https://reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1n40dbd/freebsd_repository_name_changes/

#FreeBSD #pkg

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Graham Perrin
@grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Using pkgbasify to repair a broken installation of FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE

https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/9570092c127bd43777961b6f016e75ba

#FreeBSD#Foundation #pkg #pkbase #pkgbasify #installer

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@grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Using pkgbasify to repair a broken installation of FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE

https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/9570092c127bd43777961b6f016e75ba

#FreeBSD#Foundation #pkg #pkbase #pkgbasify #installer

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