When I installed FreeBSD 15.0, I had migrated to using pkgbase rather than freebsd-update. Pkgbase uses pkg (surpise) to upgrade packages, the base system and kernel modules.
With 15.1 announced, it was my first opportunity to try an upgrade with pkgbase. The steps are as follows:
# pkg upgrade -yr FreeBSD-ports pkg # pkg -oABI=FreeBSD:15:amd64 -oOSVERSION=1501000 upgrade -r FreeBSD-base # find /etc /usr/local/etc -name "*.pkgnew" -ls # list amended conf files (there were none)
Then, the UEFI boot loader must be upgraded:
# efibootmgr -v
Boot to FW : false
BootCurrent: 0002
Timeout : 1 seconds
BootOrder : 0002, 0001
+Boot0002* UEFI OS HD(1,GPT,d8c8ed92-3d97-11f0-818e-4ccc6af963b7,0x28,0x100000)/File(\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI)
ada0p1:/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI (null)
Boot0001* Hard Drive BBS(HD,,0x0)/VenHw(5ce8128b-2cec-40f0-8372-80640e3dc858,0200)
# mount_msdosfs /dev/ada0p1 /boot/efi # cd /boot # cp loader.efi /boot/efi/efi/BOOT/loader.efi # cp loader.efi /boot/efi/efi/BOOT/BOOTx64.efi # shutdown -r now
On reboot, I upgraded the kmods packages:
# pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-ports-kmods
and then the normal ports.
However, I found Xorg would not come up; it died loading the ati driver.
A couple of hours later, I tried the pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-ports-kmods
command again. It upgraded one package:
drm-66-kmod upgraded: 6.6.25.1500068_10 -> 6.6.25.1501000_8
After that upgrade, Xorg started successfully. Bad upgrade timing on my part?
Reference: Freebsd 15.1R Upgrade Instructions
Asciidoctor
Later, I discovered I had to manually update devel/ruby-gems to
ruby34-gems-4.0.9, due to the upgrade to ruby34, and then use gem
to re-install (asciidoctor):
doas pkg install devel/ruby-gems doas gem install asciidoctor
