FreeBSD

On Friday, I finished upgrading all my FreeBSD hosts from FreeBSD 15 to FreeBSD 15.1 (the first host I did is in this blog post ). Before that, I had run pkgbasify on each of those hosts. I also ran pkgbasify in a jail, but I learned that I can run it from the host, using the -j parameter. Today, I’m going to update that jail using pkgbase, from outside the jail. In

If, after moving to pkgbase (for me, that was via pkgbasify), you discover you can’t find the package in question, you might, like me, run this command: % pkg repos -e [18:25 r720-02 dvl ~] % pkg repos -e local: { url : “https://fedex.example.org/packages/FreeBSD:15:amd64/”, enabled : yes, priority : 0, signature_type : “PUBKEY”, pubkey : “/etc/ssl/slocum.unixathome.org.cert” } Not to worry, that’s my local repo. What’s missing there is pkgbase. When I compare this

In this post: FreeBSD 15.0 If you’re running pkgbasify, and you hit this message: [15:02 zuul dvl ~/tmp] % fetch https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/pkgbasify/raw/refs/heads/main/pkgbasify.lua fetch: https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/pkgbasify/raw/refs/heads/main/pkgbasify.lua: Authentication error … my “fix” was: [15:04 zuul dvl ~/tmp] % fetch –no-verify-peer https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/pkgbasify/raw/refs/heads/main/pkgbasify.lua fetch: https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/pkgbasify/raw/refs/heads/main/pkgbasify.lua: Authentication error [15:04 zuul dvl ~/tmp] % fetch –no-verify-peer https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/pkgbasify/raw/refs/heads/main/pkgbasify.lua fetch: https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/pkgbasify/raw/refs/heads/main/pkgbasify.lua: Authentication error [15:04 zuul dvl ~/tmp] % fetch –no-verify-peer https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/pkgbasify/raw/refs/heads/main/pkgbasify.lua pkgbasify.lua 21 kB 25 MBps 00s [15:04 zuul dvl ~/tmp] % As

After my initial success yesterday with pkgbasify, today, I hit a block. This was my fourth host conversion. In this post: FreeBSD 15.0 The block There I was, minding my own business, when this jumped up and hit me. [root@tallboy:~] # sudo bectl create before-pkgbasify [root@tallboy:~] # uname -a FreeBSD tallboy.unixathome.org 15.0-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p10 GENERIC amd64 [root@tallboy:~] # fetch https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/pkgbasify/raw/refs/heads/main/pkgbasify.lua pkgbasify.lua 21 kB 1910 kBps 00s [root@tallboy:~] # chmod +x ./pkgbasify.lua [root@tallboy:~] #