From <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=289368#c5>
(off-topic from stable/14):
IIRC (without wishing to confuse this RELEASE report): no response
when I ran a freebsd-update command on pkgbase ALPHA1, so I keyed
Control-C.
Reproducible. No response to 'freebsd-update fetch' on a
freshly-installed system.
I realised what was wrong after also getting no response to this (with
piping):
pkg prime-origins | grep base | wc -l
Details in the typescript below. Initially, I thought of it as an edge
case. Now, I'm in two minds.
For the essence of what's in the typescript, I see no need to change
usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.sh
Instead, the installer for 15.0 should:
- not just install FreeBSD-pkg-bootstrap
- install pkg(8), so that bootstrapping is not required.
Possible?
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Script started on Sun Sep 7 22:05:08 2025
root@alpha-pkgbase-zfs:~ # echo $SHELL
/bin/csh
root@alpha-pkgbase-zfs:~ # uname -mvKU
FreeBSD 15.0-PRERELEASE main-n280086-851dc7f859c2 GENERIC amd64 1500063
1500063
root@alpha-pkgbase-zfs:~ # freebsd-update fetch
load: 0.17 cmd: pkg 1993 [ttyin] 7.36r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 6716k
mi_switch+0x172 sleepq_switch+0x109 sleepq_catch_signals+0x276
sleepq_wait_sig+0x9 _cv_wait_sig+0x165 tty_wait+0x42 ttydisc_read+0x2dd
ttydev_read+0x6c devfs_read_f+0xe4 dofileread+0x80 sys_read+0x127
amd64_syscall+0x169 fast_syscall_common+0xf8
load: 0.14 cmd: pkg 1993 [ttyin] 16.12r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 6716k
mi_switch+0x172 sleepq_switch+0x109 sleepq_catch_signals+0x276
sleepq_wait_sig+0x9 _cv_wait_sig+0x165 tty_wait+0x42 ttydisc_read+0x2dd
ttydev_read+0x6c devfs_read_f+0xe4 dofileread+0x80 sys_read+0x127
amd64_syscall+0x169 fast_syscall_common+0xf8
^C
root@alpha-pkgbase-zfs:~ # pkg prime-origins | grep base | wc -l
load: 0.07 cmd: wc 1996 [piperd] 9.92r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 3164k
mi_switch+0x172 sleepq_switch+0x109 sleepq_catch_signals+0x276
sleepq_wait_sig+0x9 _sleep+0x29b pipe_read+0x450 dofileread+0x80
sys_read+0x127 amd64_syscall+0x169 fast_syscall_common+0xf8
load: 0.06 cmd: wc 1996 [piperd] 20.76r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 3164k
mi_switch+0x172 sleepq_switch+0x109 sleepq_catch_signals+0x276
sleepq_wait_sig+0x9 _sleep+0x29b pipe_read+0x450 dofileread+0x80
sys_read+0x127 amd64_syscall+0x169 fast_syscall_common+0xf8
^C
root@alpha-pkgbase-zfs:~ # pkg
The package management tool is not yet installed on your system.
Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: y
Bootstrapping pkg from
pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest, please wait...
Verifying signature with trusted certificate
pkg.freebsd.org.2013102301... done
Installing pkg-2.2.2...
Extracting pkg-2.2.2: 0%
…
Extracting pkg-2.2.2: 100%
pkg: not enough arguments
Usage: pkg [-v] [-d] [-l] [-N] [-j <jail name or id>|-c <chroot path>|-r
<rootdir>] [-C <configuration file>] [-R <repo config dir>] [-o
var=value] [-4|-6] <command> [<args>]
For more information on available commands and options see 'pkg help'.
root@alpha-pkgbase-zfs:~ # pkg prime-origins | grep base | wc -l
566
root@alpha-pkgbase-zfs:~ # freebsd-update fetch
freebsd-update is incompatible with the use of packaged base. Please see
https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase for more information.
root@alpha-pkgbase-zfs:~ # exit
exit
Script done on Sun Sep 7 22:07:46 2025
