pkgbase.org
Further reading on pkgbase — the FreeBSD initiative this site indexes. Not affiliated with any of the authors or sites below; linked because the writing is specific, dated, and accurate at time of linking.
Official
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pkgbase(7)
The manual page — current as of FreeBSD 16-CURRENT. Start here. |
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PkgBase — FreeBSD Wiki
The project's own tracking page. Long-running and, at times, behind the actual state of the work — useful for background and further links, not as a step-by-step guide. |
Tools
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pkgbasify — FreeBSD Foundation
Converts an existing FreeBSD 14+ install to pkgbase in place. Experimental — take the backup warnings in the README seriously. |
Projects
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Stratipi — circuitrewind (release 2026-06-13)
A GPS-based Stratum-1 NTP time server image for Raspberry Pi. Its build process targets FreeBSD 15.0+ specifically to produce a pkgbase-based image — a real downstream consumer, not just documentation about pkgbase. |
Writing
| Running pkgbasify on a FreeBSD 15.0 host to convert a jail — Dan Langille (2026-07-20) |
| Running pkgbasify on FreeBSD 15.0 — Dan Langille (2026-06-29) |
| FreeBSD PKGBASE pkgbasify(8) Tool — vermaden (2025-07-20) |
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pkgbasify — Dag-Erling Smørgrav (2026-06-15)
Manually converting a host and eight jails to packaged base. |
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pkgbase: what can go wrong? — Dag-Erling Smørgrav (2026-06-16)
Follow-up: caveats, pitfalls, and post-conversion sanity checks. |
| Migrating to FreeBSD PkgBase — Bernard Spil (2025-02-22) |
| Updating system and jails using pkgbase — Bernard Spil (2026-06-16) |
Talks & papers
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Packaging FreeBSD base system — Baptiste Daroussin (BSDCan 2015)
The original pkgbase talk — where this all started. |
| pkgbase: Are we there yet??? — Emmanuel Vadot (EuroBSDCon 2019) |
| pkgbase in Production: A Practical Overview — Lukas Engelhardt (BSDCan 2026) |
News
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DiscoverBSD
Weekly BSD news roundup; has covered pkgbase and pkgbasify developments through 2026 as they've happened. |