Preamble: ALPHA3 is not yet announced, and the schedule at
<https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/> does not yet show that builds
have begun. I might describe things as fast-moving and pleasantly
overlapping.
On 21/09/2025 03:37, Mark Millard wrote:
Should any of the FreeBSD-set-*.pkg files have updated for 15.0-ALPHA3 ?
Is the below as expected?
Looking at https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_latest/ shows
9 files updated to have FreeBSD-*-15.0.a3.*.pkg names. The rest still
have FreeBSD-*-15.0.a2.*.pkg names. ...
Thanks. The result of an actual (possibly premature) upgrade:
<https://github.com/user-attachments/files/22450088/2025-09-21.06-21.typescript.txt>
tl;dr the end result, following a restart, was 15.0-ALPHA3 for the
running kernel and for userland.
In a little more detail:
...
root@pkg-issue-2414:~ # pkg prime-origins | grep base | wc -l
pkg: Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected. Running "pkg bootstrap
-f" recommended
260
root@pkg-issue-2414:~ #
...
Number of packages to be removed: 94
Number of packages to be installed: 33
Number of packages to be upgraded: 101
The process will require 62 MiB more space.
[1/239] Deinstalling FreeBSD-acct-man-15.0.a2.20250912171634...
...
Number of packages to be installed: 9
Number of packages to be upgraded: 5
The process will require 7 MiB more space.
[1/17] Deinstalling FreeBSD-tests-15.0.a2.20250917193914...
...
----
pkg upgrade -Uy --repository FreeBSD-base
was followed by a lock of the pkg package in response to issue 2522
then
pkg upgrade -Uy -r FreeBSD-base
