Ah that makes sense major upgrade I wasn’t considering for this but I’d
consider major in this case to be from 1.x to 2.x to 3.x as x=minor in
accordance with FreeBSD development. Hope that clears that up.
Major.Minor.Revision_PatchLevel
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Onward!,
Jason Hellenthal,
Systems & Network Adm
I figured they were probably harmless but this may be my first time upgrading
with pfBlockerNG installed.
https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Upgrade_Guide#Packages
To save a click, the entire section's text:
"It is always safest to remove packages before upgrading to a new major
release. Package
I for one have not had to do this thus far. But those pfB messages are harmless
and more of an alert that you will need to reload the IP tables afterwards but
that’s trivial. Keep in mind that I have not done that upgrade yet in a test
environment before a maintenance window I have on Saturday.
I started to upgrade from 2.3.3_1 to 2.3.4_1 today and as instructed by the
docs I uninstalled Suricata and PFBlockerNG first. I immediately got a flood
of alerts like "Unresolvable source alias 'pfB_GeoIPUSv4' for rule ...". Those
are of course popular packages. Do you all normally uninstall
