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Poudriere symlinks for repos

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I have some repos which are specific to certain tasks. Every time I upgrade major version (as I just did from FreeBSD 14.3 to FreeBSD 15.0), I need to remember to go in and add in those symlinks. I forget just about every time. I get errors like this: # pkg upgrade -f Updating local repository catalogue… pkg: Repository local has a wrong packagesite, need to re-create database pkg: Failed to fetch https://fedex.int.unixathome.org/packages/FreeBSD:15:amd64-mysql84//meta.conf: […]

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FreeBSD 15.0 – after upgrade, installing my own packages

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I build my own FreeBSD packages using poudriere. The chicken-and-egg situation: I can’t build FreeBSD 15.0 packages until I’m on FreeBSD 15.0 – and upgrading to FreeBSD 15 involves a step of upgrading all your packages before the final steps of the upgrade. What do I do? I disable my repos and enable the FreeBSD repos. If you’re using your own repos, you should already know how to do this. In this post:

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Migrating my hosts from Python 3.11 to Python 3.12

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This post probably won’t help you much. It is mostly just me saving stuff I may want to refer to later. Also, this post covers only the initial hosts. It is the first step. I’ll also post it to my Mastodon toot. In this post: FreeBSD 14.3 poudriere-3.4.4 the FreeBSD ports tree on head as of 2026-01-20 I’m also moving from PostgreSQL 16 client to PostgreSQL 18 client Building Python 3.12 via poudriere

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Got a pkg vuln you can’t get rid of?

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I’ve been working on this for a while. [23:18 r730-01 dvl ~] % pkg audit curl-8.4.0 is vulnerable: curl — SOCKS5 heap buffer overflow CVE: CVE-2023-38545 WWW: https://vuxml.FreeBSD.org/freebsd/d6c19e8c-6806-11ee-9464-b42e991fc52e.html 1 problem(s) in 1 installed package(s) found. [23:18 r730-01 dvl ~] % The original vuxml entry got it wrong. This problem was fixed in 8.4.0 A subsequent commit fixed that. So why am I still having this problem 48 hours later? mtime. This Mastodon thread

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pkg: No SRV record found for the repo ‘local’

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Today I removed and added the same package. The add failed. Background: I install from my own custom package repo server I do not install from the FreeBSD package servers My packages are built via poudriere The same basic repo configuration file has been in use for years This is what I just encountered: [tallboy dan ~] % sudo pkg install postfix Updating local repository catalogue… Fetching meta.conf: 100% 163 B 0.2kB/s 00:01

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Making my pkg.conf configuration version independent

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In this post, I will talk about how I modified my pkg configuration so I don’t have to modify it after upgrading a host/jail from one version of FreeBSD to another. You might say that you don’t have to do that. Perhaps you have a different configuration and aren’t doing what I’m doing. HEADS UP: I hit a problem with this approach when updating a jail using mkjail: see https://github.com/mkjail/mkjail/issues/30 In this post:

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Are all installed packages available for reinstall?

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When you install a package, you want to know it’s still around to reinstall. You’ve probably never given this much thought. Neither had I, until I read this post on Reddit. In my case, I run my own poudriere server which allows me to run my own package server. Why run your own package server? build ports with non-default configuration settings: Want databases/mantis build for PostgreSQL, not MySQL? (and who wouldn’t?) – You

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Upgrading a FreeBSD 12.2 jail to FreeBSD 13 using mkjail

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Mark Felder and I have been working on a minimalist set of jail scripts for creating and updating jails. All jail management is accomplished via standard vanilla FreeBSD jails. No jail managers are involved. Everything goes through jail.conf. In this post: FreeBSD 13.0 host, recently update from FreeBSD 12.2 FreeBSD 12.s jail on that host, about to be updated to FreeBSD 13 These jails were NOT created with mkjail Jails are mounted at

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Preventing a given package from being installed

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I have a few development jails dedicated to my work on FreshPorts. It’s been a hobby of mine since the late 1990s. The code I create gets packaged, ready to deploy onto the test, stage, and production hosts. EDIT 2025-12-23 Since writing this post pkg-2.5.0 has a feature for this very goal. See this reddit post. In short: pkg install -U –register-only FreeBSD-vi FreeBSD-vi-dbg I haven’t used it. What I absolutely do not

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What files installed by this package have been modified post-install?

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You’ve seen it. A package gets installed. Some shell scripts are included. They get modified. It happens. But how do you know what has changed? I know there is a tool in pkg for this. I know there is a periodic script which uses it. Let’s go looking. In this post: FreeBSD 12.1 periodic $ cd /usr/local/etc/periodic/ $ find . | grep checksum ./security/460.pkg-checksum There it is! Looking inside, I found pkg check.

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