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For my next trick, running `mkjail upgrade -a` to get the jails still on #FreeBSD 15.0 onto 15.1`mkjail` will be greatly simplified under #pkgbase.

I converted another host to pkgbase with `pkgbasify`. Worked great! Even updated the jail base:./pkgbasify --rootdir /usr/local/bastille/releases/15.1-RELEASEBastille even detects that the jail base has been updated, and the next `bastille update 15.1-RELEASE` automatically uses pkg.#FreeBSD #BastilleBSD #pkgbase

Digging a bit deeper, I noticed this in 'freebsd-update.sh':--- # Return 0 if the system is managed using pkgbase, 1 otherwise.check_pkgbase(){ # Packaged base requires that pkg is bootstrapped. if ! pkg -N -r ${BASEDIR} >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; then return 1 fi # uname(1) is used by pkg to determine ABI, so it should exist. # If it comes from a package then this system uses packaged base. if ! pkg -r ${BASEDIR} which /usr/bin/uname >/dev/null; then return 1 fi return 0--- So, pkg bootstrapped and 'uname' from package. https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.sh

26/07/17 ⇒ Updating FreeBSD 15.0 to FreeBSD 15.1 (via pkgbase) I decided that Thursday morning at 8:27 AM was the right time to start my first update from FreeBSD 15.0 to 15.1 – all my hosts are now on pkgbase. I used the pgkbasify script. Now it’s time to update again. https://dan.langille.org/2026/07/17/updating-freebsd-15-0-to-freebsd-15-1-via-pkgbase/

It was a simple upgrade, not a minor or major upgrade. Last week: pkgbase major upgrade from FreeBSD 14.4 to 15.1-RC2: an example : r/freebsd

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1ty5njr/pkgbase_major_upgrade_from_freebsd_144_to_151rc2/ This upgrade blended: part of the official announcement for 15.1-RC2 – altered for compatibility with the major upgrade part of Emrion's https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/762515 – adapted for my preferred shell, /bin/tcsh. … Packages for the third release candidate, RC3, were not available at the time.

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