FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA5 Available

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The fifth ALPHA build for the FreeBSD 15.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv7, aarch64, powerpc64, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are FreeBSD mirror sites.

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[Charlie_]

disallowing 'make installworld' with pkgbase

in 15.0 we will ship pkgbase as an alternative to the dist sets for base
system installation.  pkgbase is entirely optional and for at least 15.0,
we will continue to support dist set installation with freebsd-update.
...
however, while both update methods will be supported individually, they
cannot be used together, i.e., if you installed the system with pkgbase,
you should not attempt to update it using "make installworld"
...
instead, you have two options: update with "make buildworld packages"
and pkg-upgrade(8), or depkgbasify the system and then update using
make installworld as usual.

 

[pavlon1988]

How can i do switch and upgrade my 14.3-Release to 15.0-Alpha5 ?

 

[SirDice]

Several options, switch your source to the stable/15 branch and build(7) it. Use freebsd-update(8) and upgrade to 15.0-ALPHA5, or give pkgbase a try.

 

[scottro]

There is pkgbasify, which will convert your 14.3-RELEASE to one that uses pkgbase. It's worked well for me and several others on this forum.

GitHub - FreeBSDFoundation/pkgbasify: Convert a FreeBSD system to use pkgbase

Convert a FreeBSD system to use pkgbase. Contribute to FreeBSDFoundation/pkgbasify development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

 

[Erichans]

There is pkgbasify, which will convert your 14.3-RELEASE to one that uses pkgbase.

When considering to either:

• switch from a (non-pkgbasified) 14.3-RELEASE to using pkgbase on 14.3-RELEASE
• remain using 14.3-RELEASE pkgbase

note that pkgbase on 14.3-RELEASE is labelled experimental. Further developments are currently focussed on stable/15 towards the FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE. Relevant message:

yes, the package sets won't be backported to 14.x.

edit: to expand on that a bit, there are a lot of pkgbase changes in 15.0 as part of the work to get it ready for a production release. these changes are all interconnected so it's difficult to backport some but not others, but even if someone did the work for that, i think it's a bad idea to backport major changes like package sets because the new packages can break assumptions about how pkgbase works, e.g. for things that want to install FreeBSD-* (like poudriere).

i will fix specific bugs reported in 14.x pkgbase, but as far as features go, what you have now is basically what you get until 14 is EOL.