[This is based on what I eventually noticed in the material of my reply to a different message on freebsd-current .]
Modern https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/blame/sys/sys/param.h has: #define __FreeBSD_version 1500048 as of https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/sys/sys/param.h?id=e3a4b989d7f7 which was from: committer Olivier Certner <o...@freebsd.org> 2025-06-18 02:09:29 +0000 Yet today when I do commands like (aarch64 example here aarch64): (Note: amd64 also observed.) # pkg search -rFreeBSD-kmods -g '*' acpi_call-1.0.1.1500043_2 Kernel module for calling ACPI methods from userspace devctl-jail-kmod-g20190521.1500043 Module to expose jail lifecycle events intel-ixv-kmod-1.5.34.1500043_2 10G FreeBSD Base Driver Virtual Function for Intel(R) NIC linux_dvbwrapper-kmod-1.0.1500043_2 Linux compatibility layer - DVB ioctl handler mac_nonet-kmod-g20150821.1500043 MAC policy to disable access to networking for certain group mac_rtprio-kmod-g20170417.1500043 MAC policy to manage access for setting realtime priorities by GID mbgtools-f.1.0.0.1500043_1 Drivers and tools for Meinberg PTP/GPS cards ng_mikrotik_eoip-1.0.1500043 Netgraph node for Mikrotik EoIP tunneling open-vm-kmod-12.5.0.1500043,2 Open VMware kernel modules for FreeBSD VMware guests openzfs-kmod-2.3.2.1500043,1 OpenZFS kernel module for FreeBSD . . . So: 1500043 based, not 1500048 based. For reference: 150043 started: committer Lexi Winter <i...@freebsd.org> 2025-05-15 00:02:52 +0000 150044 started: committer Konstantin Belousov <k...@freebsd.org> 2025-05-28 11:11:23 +0000 So: over 3 weeks ago. (The detailed timing depends on that pkg 2.1+ is still in use in the ampere* based ports-package builds for the aarch64 context. They will eventually get to pkg 2.2+ .) That means it looks like the PkgBase builds for main are not building a FreeBSD-kmods that is a match to any of the kernel from main's PkgBase build. Instead, it looks to be providing whatever the ports-package builders have built. For main, that will frequently not match any of the PkgBase kernels built. SIDE QUESTION: main has multiple kernels available but only one FreeBSD-kmods (instead of one per kernel). Which kernel is FreeBSD-kmods supposed to match? What happens if/when a different one of those kernels is used instead? As near as I can tell, unless the kmods are built to match the intended PkgBase kernel, FreeBSD-kmods would best be avoided (disabled) for main and handled separately. NOTE: I've not checked any context but main. But it may well be that 14.3-STABLE's PkgBase has some similar issues to what main has. === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com
