Upgrading to a new release with pkgbase

jmos · Monday at 12:04 PM

brassmonkeys said:
Hope you're having better luck today.

Thanks, but as written: I didn't had a problem on upgrading all my machines. I just wanted to point out some inconsistencies I noticed in the official documentation.

sean137 · Monday at 6:15 PM

jmos said:
…so what now? There’s nothing like "nda0p1" as described in the doc (it's a bhyve VM).

That threw me off too. I found it with `gpart list`.

Emrion · Monday at 6:39 PM

That's why I wrote sysutils/loaders-update. This update is more complex than just follow some instructions. It needs an inspection of the actual system like freebsd-update does at another level.

brassmonkeys · Tuesday at 2:27 AM

jmos said:
Thanks, but as written: I didn't had a problem on upgrading all my machines. I just wanted to point out some inconsistencies I noticed in the official documentation.

No worries, I thought you had got stuck at that point for one of the machines.

It took me a few re-reads plus some finger crossing to attempt that part of the upgrade

Cheers

bob2112 · Tuesday at 11:02 PM

Emrion said:
That's why I wrote sysutils/loaders-update. This update is more complex than just follow some instructions. It needs an inspection of the actual system like freebsd-update does at another level.

What is it about that update that requires special handling of the UEFI boot loader? I thought that it wasn't necessary to update , unless running zfs upgrade.

fjdlr · Tuesday at 11:22 PM

@ bob2112
I use it as a safety measure when performing a release upgrade or an upgrade that includes a kernel update.
However, the package developer has provided a clear explanation of how to use it in their Git repository:
https://github.com/emrion/uploaders/

Emrion · 2026-06-24T07:13:22+0100

bob2112 said:
What is it about that update that requires special handling of the UEFI boot loader? I thought that it wasn't necessary to update , unless running zfs upgrade.

That's true at 99 %. But, if you leave the loaders without update for too long, some problems may arise.
For example, see: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/boot-loader-is-too-old-please-upgrade.96451/

bob2112 · 2026-06-24T16:01:39+0100

Emrion said:
That's true at 99 %. But, if you leave the loaders without update for too long, some problems may arise.
For example, see: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/boot-loader-is-too-old-please-upgrade.96451/

I'm not certain, but I thought that warning was a false positive; even if it wasn't, it's only a notice that the version is deprecated - there should be plenty of time to replace it.

I thought you were saying that there is a specific problem with the 15.1 update.