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Date:      Sun, 18 Jan 2026 21:26:21 -0800
From:      Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>
To:        zagazaw2004@gmail.com, freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD-14.3: vscode not available through pkg
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[Not my day. I somehow caused the other To Email address to be wrong
as well as having the correction, despite it being right in the first
message. So the prior one did not even make it to the list. Hopefully
this one will be available and reasonable to reply to for all the Email
addresses.]

On 1/18/26 21:14, Mark Millard wrote:
> [Just correcting a To Email address.]
> 
> On 1/18/26 21:02, Mark Millard wrote:
>> On 1/18/26 19:49, Maku Bex wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Was vscode removed from pkg repo?
>>>
>>> Running the command `pkg install vscode` produces the error message
>>> "pkg: No packages available.........." I'm on RELEASE-14.3-p7 and using
>>> the latest repo. I'm able to install other (available) packages so pkg
>>> is working as it should.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Quarterly? Latest? (One can be available when the other is not, for
>> example. Some times the versions are distinct; other times they are the
>> same.) I've also assumed amd64 --but that is not the only possibility.
>> Different platforms need not match for current-version status.
>>
>> vscode-1.108.0 (quarterly) and vscode-1.108.1 (latest) both depend on
>> electron39-29.2.7 currently.
>>
>> electron39-29.2.7 is not the version being built for official
>> distribution (such resource and time intensive builds get only one
>> version built for distribution):
>>
>> The electron* versions built for distribution are currently:
>> Latest:    electron37-37.10.3
>> Quarterly: electron37-37.10.3
>>
>> As stands, you would have to build:
>>
>> electron39-29.2.7
>> vscode-1.108.* (the appropriate one for your context)
>>
>> locally (including any prerequisites not otherwise available with the
>> appropriate version) and install the subset of things that are required
>> at run-time.
>>
>> However, since builds and installs need not be independent, you might
>> have to build and install more to be based on the same port source code
>> vintages as used to do the above builds. Or just build and install
>> everything locally so that they are consistent.
>>
>>
>> Note, as stands: For quarterly, only deltachat-desktop-2.35.0 and
>> vscode-1.108.0 depend on electron39-29.2.7; only logseq-0.10.15_1
>> depends on electron38-38.7.2 . For latest, only deltachat-desktop-2.35.0
>> and vscode-1.108.1 depend on electron39-29.2.7; only logseq-0.10.15_1
>> depends on electron38-38.7.2 .
>>
>>
> 
> 


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