pkgbase

At BSDCan 2026, I attended the pkgbase in Production: A Practical Overview talk. What impressed me was the ease with which one could upgrade from 15.0 to 15.1 etc. Included in the demonstration was pkgbasify (“Automatically convert a FreeBSD system to use pkgbase”). In this post: the host being modified is running FreeBSD 15.0 Today, I took the plunge on my r730-01 host. Following the instructions at https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/pkgbasify I did the following. I […]