Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2025 05:39:40 +0000 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> To: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>, Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: disallowing 'make installworld' with pkgbase [side note about release notes draft] Message-ID: <01000199b8085f19-8c755fb6-b19b-486d-98f6-a6e5b8bb4253-000000@email.amazonses.com> In-Reply-To: <66C7F43E-3990-42D8-97CF-38E19177B583@yahoo.com> References: <66C7F43E-3990-42D8-97CF-38E19177B583.ref@yahoo.com> <66C7F43E-3990-42D8-97CF-38E19177B583@yahoo.com>
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On 10/5/25 22:30, Mark Millard wrote: > Lexi Winter <ivy_at_freebsd.org> wrote on > Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2025 02:03:17 UTC : > >> in 15.0 we will ship pkgbase as an alternative to the dist sets for base >> system installation. pkgbase is entirely optional and for at least 15.0, >> we will continue to support dist set installation with freebsd-update. >> >> . . . > > This seems to also be an announcement of a change to what the 15.0 > draft release notes ( https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/relnotes/ ) > have said: > > QUOTE > FreeBSD Update is probably not going to exist in 15.0-RELEASE! The text > below is boilerplate from previous releases and should be replaced with > instructions for using pkgbase once those are finalized. > END QUOTE > > It would be good for the draft to have its "probably" status for this > switched at some point. Yeah, I'll definitely fix that before the release. Plans have changed and in particular we've determined that -- since we can ship DVD images with identical binaries via dist sets and packages -- supporting "legacy" FreeBSD Update in 15.x should be reasonably straightforward. (This was hinted at in my earlier announcement about the timeline for deprecation of dist sets.) -- Colin Percival FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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