Posts Tagged pkg
Upgrading a base package install from 15.0-RELEASE to 16-CURRENT
Sunday, 18 Jan 2026
I know, 15.0-RELEASE has been out now for over a month, and I’m easily bored. Obviously, it’s time to switch back to running 16-CURRENT with whatever random patches I am working on atm. I’m hoping tha…
An introduction to FreeBSD packaging
Thursday, 3 May 2018
FreeBSD 10+ provides a new pkg(7) tool and a new efficient binary format for storing package info, with similar functionality to apt or yum in Linux distros. Despite this, building custom packages on …