OK, I have a FreeBSD 15.1 installed having just upgraded from 15.0 using the old school
Now my issue is with output from pkg(8):
So far, so good, except for the following:
Now what peaked my interest is that I have a May 2022 version installed for 15.1, yet the 15.0 version is May 2026.
I verified the file pulled straight from source:
Am I missing something, or are FreeBSD-ports-kmods not currently being built for 15.1 which was released a month ago?
Or is there a problem with how I am running
freebsd-update mechanism.
Code:
root@hostname:/tmp # uname -a
FreeBSD hostname 15.1-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p1 #0 -dirty: Tue Jun 30 03:16:39 UTC 2026 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC amd64
Code:
root@hostname:/tmp # freebsd-version -kru
15.1-RELEASE-p1
15.1-RELEASE-p1
15.1-RELEASE-p1Now my issue is with output from pkg(8):
Code:
root@hostname:/tmp # pkg update -f && pkg upgrade
Updating FreeBSD-ports repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.conf: 100% 179 B 0.2 kB/s 00:01
Fetching data: 100% 11 MiB 2.9 MB/s 00:04
Processing entries: 100%
FreeBSD-ports repository update completed. 37857 packages processed.
Updating FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.conf: 100% 179 B 0.2 kB/s 00:01
Fetching data: 100% 35 KiB 36.0 kB/s 00:01
Processing entries: 100%
FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository update completed. 240 packages processed.
All repositories are up to date.
Updating FreeBSD-ports repository catalogue...
FreeBSD-ports repository is up to date.
Updating FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository catalogue...
FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
Checking for upgrades (142 candidates): 100%
Processing candidates (142 candidates): 100%
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
Your packages are up to date.So far, so good, except for the following:
Code:
root@polonium:/tmp/kmods_latest_1 # pkg version -vRL= | grep "<" | tail
gpu-firmware-radeon-kmod-rv670-20220511.1501000 < needs updating (remote has 20260519.1500068)
gpu-firmware-radeon-kmod-rv710-20220511.1501000 < needs updating (remote has 20260519.1500068)
gpu-firmware-radeon-kmod-rv730-20220511.1501000 < needs updating (remote has 20260519.1500068)
gpu-firmware-radeon-kmod-rv740-20220511.1501000 < needs updating (remote has 20260519.1500068)
gpu-firmware-radeon-kmod-rv770-20220511.1501000 < needs updating (remote has 20260519.1500068)
gpu-firmware-radeon-kmod-sumo-20220511.1501000 < needs updating (remote has 20260519.1500068)
gpu-firmware-radeon-kmod-sumo2-20220511.1501000 < needs updating (remote has 20260519.1500068)
gpu-firmware-radeon-kmod-tahiti-20220511.1501000 < needs updating (remote has 20260519.1500068)
gpu-firmware-radeon-kmod-turks-20220511.1501000 < needs updating (remote has 20260519.1500068)
gpu-firmware-radeon-kmod-verde-20220511.1501000 < needs updating (remote has 20260519.1500068)Now what peaked my interest is that I have a May 2022 version installed for 15.1, yet the 15.0 version is May 2026.
I verified the file pulled straight from source:
Code:
root@hostname:/tmp # rm -rf /tmp/kmods_latest_1
root@hostname:/tmp # mkdir /tmp/kmods_latest_1
root@hostname:/tmp # cd /tmp/kmods_latest_1
root@hostname:/tmp/kmods_latest_1 # fetch -v https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_latest_1/data.pkg
resolving server address: pkg.freebsd.org:443
SSL options: 82004850
Peer verification enabled
Using OpenSSL default CA cert file and path
Verify hostname
TLSv1.3 connection established using TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
Certificate subject: /CN=pkg.freebsd.org
Certificate issuer: /C=US/O=Certainly/CN=Certainly Intermediate R1
requesting https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_latest_1/data.pkg
remote size / mtime: 36019 / 1779264050
data.pkg 35 kB 379 kBps 00s
root@hostname:/tmp/kmods_latest_1 # tar -xvf data.pkg
x data.sig
x data.pub
x data
root@hostname:/tmp/kmods_latest_1 # ls -la
total 47
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 6 Jul 13 18:19 .
drwxrwxrwt 7 root wheel 7 Jul 13 18:19 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 233846 May 20 09:00 data
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 36019 May 20 09:00 data.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 451 Jan 1 1970 data.pub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 256 Jan 1 1970 data.sig
root@hostname:/tmp/kmods_latest_1 # python3.12 - <<'PY'
import json
with open("data") as f:
repository = json.load(f)
packages = repository["packages"]
print("Total packages:", len(packages))
for origin in (
"graphics/gpu-firmware-amd-kmod",
"graphics/gpu-firmware-intel-kmod",
"graphics/gpu-firmware-radeon-kmod",
):
matching = [p for p in packages if p["origin"] == origin]
versions = sorted({p["version"] for p in matching})
print()
print("Origin:", origin)
print("Packages:", len(matching))
print("Versions:", ", ".join(versions))
PY
Total packages: 240
Origin: graphics/gpu-firmware-amd-kmod
Packages: 85
Versions: 20250109.1501000
Origin: graphics/gpu-firmware-intel-kmod
Packages: 13
Versions: 20250109.1501000
Origin: graphics/gpu-firmware-radeon-kmod
Packages: 42
Versions: 20220511.1501000
root@hostname:/tmp/kmods_latest_1 #Am I missing something, or are FreeBSD-ports-kmods not currently being built for 15.1 which was released a month ago?
Or is there a problem with how I am running
pkg version?
