You are some veteran!

Experiences measured by tooth marks in my rear!

ant-x: You best be posting on that reddit post.

is there a way to query for the changelog before updating a package?

rrahl0: not really, ports commits usually just say something like "bump port version"

rtprio: thanks. on that note, is there some explanation about versioning? still trying to figure out what version,2 and version_2,2 means

some of those are a library that changed version and there's a token ,2 at the end so that the dependant package rebuilds

rrahl0, You could always look at the ports commit log: cgit.freebsd.org/ports/log

rtprio: it failed : i'm done, lets reinstall

on another hosting solution

I have ended up in a situation where I have two hosts with an identical /etc/hostid. As this is not an ideal situation I wonder what things should I consider before changing the hostid

(I guess this happened as I swapped out a motherboard from one system and later used that one to build another system)

rrahl0, rtprio: additionally to the normal version of a project the package has the components PORTREVISION and PORTEPOCH, displayed as <version>_<PORTREVISION>,<PORTEPOCH>. PORTREVISION changes if the port changes in some way that requires a rebuild without the version changing and (should) reset to 0 when the version changes. PORTEPOCH is for cases where upstream changes its versioning scheme

and the new version would compare less than the old version, so we need to tell pkg that it is really newer docs.freebsd.org/en/books/porters-h…makefiles/#makefile-naming-revepoch

nimaje: are you sure about the portepoch? because afair, firefox-esr never changed it's versioning, but it's still at 140.7.0_2,2

seems like the change from epoch 1 to 2 was an accident in cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=2…455773511e71d4739fc3576b37fd8eee349 should have been an PORTREVISION bump

nimaje: thanks

and epoch 1 seems to be copied from firefox when the -esr port was added

Oks4: i don't think it's a big deal [but i'm not certain where all that's used]

thanks. i tried to look info about it but could not find much. at least it results my bridge interfaces sharing a mac address :(

yeah, probably better rm it and re-create it

In bhyve's internal DHCP can I pass PXE options to the guest?

wait, since when does bhyve have a dhcp server?

news to me as well

do you mean the efi loader dhclient ?

ah, yeah a dhcp client in the uefi firmware for pxe boot makes sense, but no idea about that

that's neat thank you

noticed a strange behaviour on FreeBSD 14.3 with /bin/sh. If I have `function FUNC_NAME() { ... }` then /bin/sh will fail after complaining: Syntax error "(" is unexpected. The man page for sh though says that the syntax should be `function FUNC_NAME ( ) { ... }`. If I don't use `function` then everything works fine.

Am I missing something?

Does /bin/sh support the "function" syntax? That's a ksh'ism. Avoid it and I am sure it works.

Something like "foo() { echo foo; }" without saying "function" at all there.

mns: hm, where did you find that the function definition syntax would be `function FUNC_NAME() { ... }`? the man page states clearly ´The syntax of a function definition is name ( ) command´ under "Functions"

so bsdinstall doesnt want to work with IPv6-only

offline install is pkgbase only

and I think everyone knows how I feel about pkgbase

bsdinstall keeps breaking networking, I cant jump into it setting up the O

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nimaje: blimey! I must be blind! I misread that section on Functions!

has anyone done an IPv6 only install on freebsd 15.0-RELEASE

I keep getting transitive dns failures

drop into shell, everything works fine

although bsdinstall sometimes deletes /etc/resolv.conf for no fucking reason

polarian: yes

it worked fine, during setup I gave it a v6 nameserver

deimosBSD: im using my own nameserver

on my router

keep getting dns errors

I am using a mirror iso now

I was using my own compiled one, I got a feeling -p2 might have been an issue

so I am using a mirrored iso, and then I will try again

but tbh with pkgbase, I think I want to script my own installs and if bsdinstall drops it

I think I will dump bsdinstall and just do a manual install, and script that from scratch

i believe bsdinstall was created to improve installs from scripts. We've come full circle in 20 years.

out of curiosity, does it work with a public nameserver? Like 2620:fe::fe (quad9)?

nope

I cant bsdinstall with IPv6

it keeps deleting /etc/resolv.conf

deimosBSD: will try now

deimosBSD: nope

still nothing

and bsdinstall KEEPS TRYING TO FUCKING PKGBASE

piece of shit.

deimosBSD: fetching the sets works fine