etcupdate missing on fresh raspberry pi aarch64 image

[siffland]

I imaged a fresh copy of

FreeBSD-15.0-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-RPI.img.xz

to a Raspberry Pi (3 B+) and logged directly in as root (keyboard and monitor, not ssh) did a pkg info and pkg update (no packages except pkg are installed). Then i downloaded pkgbasify.lua and ran it an i get this.

[root@generic:~ # ./pkgbasify.lua
Running this tool will irreversibly modify your system to use pkgbase.
This tool and pkgbase are experimental and may result in a broken system.
It is highly recommended to backup your system before proceeding.
Do you accept this risk and wish to continue? (y/n) y
cp: //var/db/etcupdate/current: No such file or directory
/usr/libexec/flua: ./pkgbasify.lua:374: exit
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'assert'
        ./pkgbasify.lua:374: in upvalue 'setup_conversion'
        ./pkgbasify.lua:589: in local 'main'
        ./pkgbasify.lua:604: in main chunk
        [C]: in ?
root@generic:~ #]

Any idea how I can resolve this.

Thanks,
Sean

[siffland]

Also i do see the //var, i edited the script so it was just /var/db/etcupdate/current and still the same error. I can confirm /var/db/etcupdate does not exist on the machine.