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✧✦Catherine✦✧@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems (2026-09-21 19:20:45)
oh, it turns out that what happened would be:

i install nodejs
this causes the base system to be updated from 15.1 to 15.1p3
this causes freebsd to decide to autonomously reboot (wtf??)
this causes the CI orchestrator i'm using to falsely report it as a timeout despite no such thing happening
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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange (2026-09-21 19:24:48)
@whitequark 


this causes the base system to be updated from 15.1 to 15.1p3


This is a pkgbase system then?  This includes a kernel update, so rebooting is the correct thing to do.

If you're using a pkgbase system and don't want to update the base system, you should add -r to specify only the built-from-ports repos.

Pkgbase is still marked as experimental, so if you're using it then please report issues upstream!

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Cassandrich@dalias@hachyderm.io (2026-09-21 19:30:57)
@david_chisnall @whitequark Package manager forcing a reboot is Windows level of 🤦 🤬