Solved Convert 15.0-RELEASE to pkgbase

uchman

uchman

Hi!

I have a system recently updated to 15.0 using traditional freebsd-update. And now I want to convert it to use pkgbase.

# uname -a
FreeBSD hyper15.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE releng/15.0-n280995-7aedc8de6446 GENERIC amd64


that's nice and everything but when I try to use pkgbasify.lua I run in to this problem:

# ./pkgbasify.lua
Running this tool will irreversibly modify your system to use pkgbase.
This tool and pkgbase are experimental and may result in a broken system.
It is highly recommended to backup your system before proceeding.
Do you accept this risk and wish to continue? (y/n) y
Updating FreeBSD-base repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.conf: 100% 179 B 0.2kB/s 00:01
Fetching data.pkg: 100% 80 KiB 81.6kB/s 00:01
pkg: No trusted public keys found
FreeBSD-base repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
/usr/libexec/flua: ./pkgbasify.lua:28: exit
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'assert'
./pkgbasify.lua:28: in upvalue 'capture'
./pkgbasify.lua:212: in upvalue 'rquery_osversion'
./pkgbasify.lua:231: in upvalue 'confirm_version_compatibility'
./pkgbasify.lua:363: in upvalue 'setup_conversion'
./pkgbasify.lua:541: in local 'main'
./pkgbasify.lua:554: in main chunk
[C]: in ?


As far as I can tell I have the same keys as the distribution-files.

# ls /usr/share/keys/pkgbase-15/trusted/
awskms-15 backup-signing-15
 
Erichans said:
Please post the output of
pkg -vv | sed -nE -e '/^OSVERSION|^ABI/ p' -e '/^Repositories:/,$ p'
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# pkg -vv | sed -nE -e '/^OSVERSION|^ABI/ p' -e '/^Repositories:/,$ p'
ABI = "FreeBSD:15:amd64";
OSVERSION = "1500068";
Repositories:
FreeBSD-ports: {
url : "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/quarterly",
enabled : yes,
priority : 0,
mirror_type : "SRV",
signature_type : "FINGERPRINTS",
fingerprints : "/usr/share/keys/pkg"
}
FreeBSD-ports-kmods: {
url : "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0",
enabled : yes,
priority : 0,
mirror_type : "SRV",
signature_type : "FINGERPRINTS",
fingerprints : "/usr/share/keys/pkg"
}
FreeBSD-base: {
url : "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_release_0",
enabled : yes,
priority : 0,
mirror_type : "SRV",
signature_type : "FINGERPRINTS",
fingerprints : "/usr/share/keys/pkgbase-15"
}
 
Right, I have used pkgbasify at 15.0-BETAx; I've succesfully used pkg upgrade to the unofficial 15.0-RELEASE atm; my situation therefore is not quite the same.

You might have been impacted by the changes that haven been made wrt the FreeBSD-base configuration settings. I'm not particularly knowledgable in the area of the usage of keys, however, looking at pkgbasify.lua#L84-L96:
Rich (BB code): 
local function create_base_repo_conf(path)
    assert(os.execute("mkdir -p " .. path:match(".*/")))
    local f <close> = assert(io.open(path, "w"))
    assert(f:write(string.format([[
%s: {
  url: "%s",
  mirror_type: "srv",
  signature_type: "fingerprints",
  fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
  enabled: yes
}
]], options.repo_name, base_repo_url())))
end
you might consider changing the fingerprints value in your pkgbasify script to the one you got as shown in your output.

Edit: After rerunning pkgbasify IF successful (it seems it was!), verify that the fingerprints values for FreeBSD-ports and FreeBSD-ports-kmods repositories have remained the same as shown in your output.
 
Erichans said:
Right, I have used pkgbasify at 15.0-BETAx; I've succesfully used pkg upgrade to the unofficial 15.0-RELEASE atm; my situation therefore is not quite the same.

You might have been impacted by the changes that haven been made wrt the FreeBSD-base configuration settings. I'm not particularly knowledgable in the area of the usage of keys, however, looking at pkgbasify.lua#L84-L96:
Rich (BB code): 
local function create_base_repo_conf(path)
    assert(os.execute("mkdir -p " .. path:match(".*/")))
    local f <close> = assert(io.open(path, "w"))
    assert(f:write(string.format([[
%s: {
  url: "%s",
  mirror_type: "srv",
  signature_type: "fingerprints",
  fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
  enabled: yes
}
]], options.repo_name, base_repo_url())))
end
you might consider changing the fingerprints value in your pkgbasify script to the one you got as shown in your output.
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That solved it for me! Thanks!
 
uchman said:
That solved it for me! Thanks!
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After having run pkgbasify (to get to a packaged base) verify that you have, as it is intented for the release version, for /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf:
Code: 
[1-0] % cat /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf
#
# To disable a repository, instead of modifying or removing this file,
# create a /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf file, e.g.:
#
#   mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos
#   echo "FreeBSD-ports: { enabled: no }" > /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
#   echo "FreeBSD-ports-kmods: { enabled: no }" >> /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
#
# Note that the FreeBSD-base repository is disabled by default.
#

FreeBSD-ports: {
  url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/quarterly",
  mirror_type: "srv",
  signature_type: "fingerprints",
  fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
  enabled: yes
}
FreeBSD-ports-kmods: {
  url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/kmods_quarterly_${VERSION_MINOR}",
  mirror_type: "srv",
  signature_type: "fingerprints",
  fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
  enabled: yes
}
FreeBSD-base: {
  url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/base_release_${VERSION_MINOR}",
  mirror_type: "srv",
  signature_type: "fingerprints",
  fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkgbase-${VERSION_MAJOR}",
  enabled: no
}
[2-0] %
See FreeBSD.conf.quarterly-release - releng/15; then enable the FreeBSD-base repository in your locally defined .conf file.

Atm it looks like pkgbasify still creates a seperate /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-base.conf; that's probably what you have at the moment. pkgbasify.lua#L12-L20:
Rich (BB code): 
local options = {
	create_repo_conf = true,
	repo_name = "FreeBSD-base"
}

local repo_conf_dir <const> = "/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/"
local function repo_conf_file()
	return repo_conf_dir .. options.repo_name .. ".conf"
end

Having both
/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-base.conf

is acceptable and works. However, you may prefer having all your local settings in one locally defined config file; I do.
The pkg -vv "partially parses" all pkg .conf files and thus you see the expanded variables in the output; this represents the settings that are "active".
 
Note pkgbasify - Commit 8ff18af - as of Dec 2, 2025, 4:34 PM GMT+1:
Merely enable FreeBSD-base repo for 15+

Since FreeBSD 15, /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf includes a definition of the
FreeBSD-base repository with all the correct information, it merely
needs to be enabled.
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That means if you have installed 15.0-RELEASE based the traditional dist-sets, and want to switch to a packaged base afterwards, running pkgbasify should suffice.
 
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