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FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE just got relesed at the end of last month, and I wanted to upgrade my NAS server running FreeBSD 13.x-RELEASE to 14.0. Using the installation instruction from [1], I was able to upgrade smoothly without any issues. Here are the steps: # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install # freebsd-update upgrade -r 14.0-RELEASE # freebsd-update install Reboot: # reboot After rebooting, freebsd-update(8)[2] needs to be run again to install the new userland components: ...

I wanted to install vim package on FreeBSD 13.0, and did so without realizing that there were over 86 additional dependency packages installed. This was done with pkg install -y vim command. Anyway, I wanted to clean up by removing vim and those dependencies after all this is a headless server. Removing vim package doesn’t remove the installed dependencies. Fortunately, I was able to copy and paste the names of dependency packages and save it to a file. My first thought was to just go through each line in that file and run pkg delete -y PACKAGE. In the past I needed to do similar thing in a bash script or command to loop through the content of a file per line. Guess what? I no longer remember how to do that. Hence I’m writing this post to remind my future self in case I need to do this similar thing again. ...

It’s another night with another FreeBSD problem. Well, I could just use Linux like Ubuntu or Void, but then things would just work. Where is the fun? 😉 So, I’ve been having problem with upgrading or installing new binary packages on a machine running FreeBSD 12.0 for a few days now. root@vansota:~ # pkg upgrade Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... FreeBSD repository is up to date. All repositories are up to date. Checking for upgrades (13 candidates): 100% Processing candidates (13 candidates): 100% The following 6 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked): New packages to be INSTALLED: p5-Locale-gettext: 1.07 Installed packages to be REINSTALLED: xorg-server-1.18.4_6,1 (needed shared library changed) xf86-input-synaptics-1.9.0 (options changed) texinfo-6.5,1 (options changed) m4-1.4.18,1 (options changed) help2man-1.47.5 (options changed) Number of packages to be installed: 1 Number of packages to be reinstalled: 5 The process will require 2 MiB more space. 3 MiB to be downloaded. Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y [1/6] Fetching xorg-server-1.18.4_6,1.txz: 100% 1 MiB 184.0kB/s 00:08 pkg: cached package xorg-server-1.18.4_6,1: size mismatch, fetching from remote [2/6] Fetching xorg-server-1.18.4_6,1.txz: 18% 272 KiB 180.2kB/s 00:08 ETA First I’d thought it was just some FreeBSD mirrors were out of sync of each others. This happens quite frequently with Ubuntu mirrors. Usually, we give it a bit of time and the problem will fix itself. ...