Updated #FreeBSD today: started with "14-CURRENT"; ended with "14-STABLE".

Kernel building was exciting for the KERNCONF could not be found Initially I thought the problem could be more ... problematic. Turned out that "GENERIC-NODEBUG" was merely gone. No wonder. Well, after substituting a kernel configuration sans "COMPAT_FREEBSD[0-9]" everything was fine again (Man! "GENERIC" configuration has lots of crap! Best is not to look at it.)

Until "#etcupdate -[pB]". That reported "conflicts" with a version of "/etc/{group,master.passwd}" (along with log rotation changes for "pf" & "sendmail" files). Of course it did Kept own versions (by eliding the undesired conflict marker, state).

Random thought about one tiny thing I love about #FreeBSD: #etcupdate! (IIRC freebsd-update incorporates something similar, but I always update from source...)

It does a 3-way compare of /etc (local, old upstream and new upstream) and automatically updates/merges configs, or, as a last resort, marks conflicts.

Unfortunately this won't help with /usr/local/etc (configs for #ports), but it's a start to have it for base and already a big plus over any #Linux #distribution I've seen so far.

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?etcupdate