Re: pkg upgrade vs building from source

freebsd-version -kru ; uname -aKU
12.3-RELEASE-p6
12.3-RELEASE
12.3-RELEASE-p7
FreeBSD www.paulbeard.org 12.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE r371126 GENERIC
 i386 1203000 1203000

pkg -vv | grep -e url -e enabled -e priority
    url             : "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:12:i386/quarterly
",
    enabled         : yes,
    priority        : 0,


On Sat, Oct 8, 2022 at 2:41 PM David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>
wrote:

> On 10/8/22 08:35, paul beard wrote:
>  > My skepticism over pkg doing what I expect grows after recent events.
>
>  > I allowed [pkg] to upgrade postfix the other day and discovered that
> it no longer worked;
>
>  > How do other people manage this?
>
>
> I have operated a FreeBSD SOHO server 24x7 for 3+ years, starting with
> FreeBSD-11.2-RELEASE-amd64,  I strive to keep my systems as simple and
> "official" as possible.  I have never seen any problems that I could
> attribute to freebsd-update(1) or pkg(1).
>
>
> My upgrade mantra is:
>
> # freebsd-update fetch install
>
> # pkg update
>
> # pkg upgrade
>
> # pkg autoremove
>
> # pkg clean
>
>
> On 10/8/22 13:18, paul beard wrote:
>  > On 10/8/22 11:11, Graham Perrin wrote:
>  >> Which version of FreeBSD, exactly?
>  >>
>  > FreeBSD www.paulbeard.org 12.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE r371126
> GENERIC
>  >   i386
>  >
>  >
>  >> Packages from latest, or quarterly?
>  >>
>  > Hm…whatever pkg update pulls
>  >>
>  >> freebsd-version -kru ; uname -aKU
>  >>
>  > See above.
>
>
> For comparison:
>
> 2022-10-08 14:03:04 toor@f3 ~
> # freebsd-version -kru ; uname -aKU
> 12.3-RELEASE-p6
> 12.3-RELEASE-p6
> 12.3-RELEASE-p7
> FreeBSD f3.tracy.holgerdanske.com 12.3-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD
> 12.3-RELEASE-p6 GENERIC  amd64 1203000 1203000
>
>
> I do not see any freebsd-version(1) output in your output, above.
>
>
> I do not see a patch level in your uname(1) output, above.
>
>
> The most obvious difference is that you are running i386 and I am
> running amd64.  That is not supposed to matter.
>
>
>  > pkg -vv | grep -e url -e enabled -e priority
>  >
>  >      url             :
> "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:12:i386/quarterly
>  > ",
>  >      enabled         : yes,
>  >      priority        : 0,
>
>
> For comparison:
>
> 2022-10-08 14:03:12 toor@f3 ~
> # pkg -vv | grep -e url -e enabled -e priority
>      url             :
> "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/quarterly",
>      enabled         : yes,
>      priority        : 0,
>
>
> David
>
>

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