pkg upgrades ready but not in pfsense repo
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Hello everyone,
Thanks to a few folks here in the forum ive been able to set up email alerting when my pfsense has updates ready. Last night i got the following
00:05:04 Some packages are part of the base system and will not show up in Package Manager. If any such updates are listed below, run `pkg upgrade` from the shell to install them: frr9: 9.0.1 -> 9.0.1_1 [pfSense] frr9-pythontools: 9.0.1 -> 9.0.1_1 [pfSense] libyang2: 2.1.80 -> 2.1.128 [pfSense] pfSense-upgrade: 1.2_6 -> 1.2.1 [pfSense] unbound: 1.18.0 -> 1.18.0_1 [pfSense]There are no package updates that i see when i click on package manager. I do know based on a recent redmine there was an FRR python script fix and I do know some of us have been having issues with unbound.
Should i move ahead and do package upgrades or should i wait for the pfsense repo to have an update? @stephenw10 -
In what pfSense version?
You should only upgrade a system pkg like that if you know for sure that it addresses something you need.
In general though it should be fine because anyone upgrading to that version of pfSense now or installing FRR would get those pkg versions anyway. But if a package has multiple dependencies you need to pull all of them. That would happen with a pfSense package install but not if you install a single pkg.
Steve
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@stephenw10 said in pkg upgrades ready but not in pfsense repo:
In what pfSense version?
I am on 23.09
@stephenw10 said in pkg upgrades ready but not in pfsense repo:
In general though it should be fine because anyone upgrading to that version of pfSense now or installing FRR would get those pkg versions anyway. But if a package has multiple dependencies you need to pull all of them. That would happen with a pfSense package install but not if you install a single pkg.
hmm the way you made it seem, maybe i should wait then? i certainly dont want to pull in additional dependencies i dont need but i also would like to be up to date on packages where i know theres a known problem but i am not personally affected by it. Just good to know theres a fix and why not update...is my thought process
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If it's something that's definitely solved and addresses a significant issue I'd expect to see a new pfSense pkg version.
If you did opt to update I would recommend reinstalling the full pfSense package. Doing that will pull in all the required depencies that may have been updated and will run the pkg install scripts.
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@stephenw10
Seems reasonable. Thanks for the advice on this. I will think about this a bit more. Appreciate it Stephen
