Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2025 21:03:20 -0700 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Cc: Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD-pkgbase@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:i386/base_latest/ existing and getting 15.0-ALPHA* updates? Message-ID: <9AE3A548-2BCD-4289-AB90-60F563D9E89E@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <ea25ea6e-95aa-453e-b63b-a3d2467ca646@freebsd.org> References: <9332A517-40F0-477C-A30B-D1629E9F18A0.ref@yahoo.com> <9332A517-40F0-477C-A30B-D1629E9F18A0@yahoo.com> <ea25ea6e-95aa-453e-b63b-a3d2467ca646@freebsd.org>
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On Sep 21, 2025, at 20:05, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 9/21/25 18:39, Mark Millard wrote: >> https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:i386/base_latest/FreeBSD-src-15.0.a3.20250920235810.pkg >> and: >> https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:i386/base_latest/FreeBSD-kernel-generic-15.0.a3.20250921111746.pkg >> and the like exist: so there is a pkgbase i386 15.0-ALPHA3 distribution. > > This is a "nobody got around to turning it off" thing. > >> Is https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ wrong about i386 for 15.x? > > No. There won't be release images for i386, there won't be freebsd-update > support for i386, and there won't be any more packages build from ports > for i386 (I'm not sure if they've been taken off pkg.freebsd.org yet, but > the system which was building them is now doing amd64 16.x packages). Good to know. It can be difficult to figure out when an appropriate time to ask such questions is. For reference for FreeBSD:15:i386 : https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:i386/latest/ is present but seems to have stopped updating at something like 2025-Sep-12 07:04 . https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:i386/kmods_latest/ is present but is back at 2025-Aug-08 12:01 or so. https://pkg.freebsd.org/ has not mentioned FreeBSD:15:i386 in a long time. > There's just a lot of things to turn off when a platform is desupported and > not all of them happen at once. ;-) Yep. For reference: https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:powerpc/ stopped updating earlier but is also still present. https://pkg.freebsd.org/ still lists FreeBSD:15:powerpc . (Once removed, freshports will stop reporting about FreeBSD:15:powerpc once it sees the lack of the reference on that page.) https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:armv6/ exists but does not publish anything: an empty directory. https://pkg.freebsd.org/ has not mentioned FreeBSD:15:armv6 in a long time. Thanks. === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.comhelp
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