On 8/14/25 18:17, Guido Falsi wrote:
Hi,
I was also bitten by this. I'm sharing how I got past the issue in
case it could be useful to others.
I recovered by rolling back to a previous ZFS snapshot using an USB
installation media. This can be a viable solution depending on FS
being used and availability of snapshots.
Anyway, after taking the machine to a usable state I was able to
update past the tripping point by doing:
pkg-static upgrade -r <base-repo> -g 'FreeBSD-runtime*'
'FreeBSD-pkg-bootstrap*' 'FreeBSD-clibs*'
(the bootstrap part is most probably not needed)
this will tell you it wants to remove the pkg package, but will not do
so, since there is no '-f' option. After this proceed with a
`pkg-static -r <base-repo> upgrade`.
Depending on how old the previous installation is you will need to
check for new packages to install, I was missing a bunch -dev and -man
ones, and some new ones.
I then had to add this to libmap.conf (actually to
/usr/local/etc/libmap.d/upgrade.conf):
libcrypto.so.30 libcrypto.so.35
libutil.so.9 libutil.so.10
libssl.so.30 libssl.so.35
So old ports depending on old libraries still work. I'm keeping these
for a while, until I can perform a `pkg upgrade -f`
Hope this can be helpful until the issue is solved.
thanks for this guido, this helped me out a lot,
in my case the first command still aborted with pkg trying to remove
itself,
i had to run the arguments separately:
pkg-static upgrade -r FreeBSD-base -g 'FreeBSD-runtime*'
pkg-static upgrade -r FreeBSD-base -g 'FreeBSD-pkg-bootstrap*'
pkg-static upgrade -r FreeBSD-base -g 'FreeBSD-clibs*'
and these were the new packages i installed:
FreeBSD-bsdconfig
FreeBSD-gssd
FreeBSD-kerberos-kdc
FreeBSD-libmilter
FreeBSD-rip
FreeBSD-test
not sure if any of these were essential or not, can't hurt to have them
i suppose,
but i'm finally updated to 15.0-PRERELEASE <3
tilde~
