On Tue, 12 May 2026, at 01:01, John D Groenveld wrote: > In message <[email protected]>, Mark Millard > write > s: >>I got that wrong. For example, in 1404500 the "5" (or [6-9]) indicates >>"-STABLE" So: 14.4-STABLE . It is another thing that the ABI does not >>indicate of itself. >> >>It is really the last 2 digits that I should have referenced as >>potentially ignored. > > I *think* I would prefer if pkg(8) just honored VERSION_MINOR from > the command line rather than having to set ABI and OSVERSION per > pkg.conf(5). > <URL:https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/blob/main/docs/pkg.conf.5> > <URL:https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/blob/main/libpkg/pkg_config.c> > > Arguably, this should do the right thing in the OP's case and upgrade > the boot environment to the 15.1 base and kmods: > hypothetically# pkg -o VERSION_MINOR=1 upgrade ... > > John > [email protected]
This was my thought too, so it matches the config file. https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/pull/2674 Users needing to divine the meaining of 1501000 seems unnecessary. A+ Dave
