Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 09:21:41 -0500 From: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> To: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Switching release media dist sets to .tzst (tar + zstd)? Message-ID: <CAPyFy2AcfakMC-92HuXrD_PCjuttaASDPAYxBm5zxN6h64upHw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <E7CF486A-81BE-4B1C-A1E4-6B820F454259@yahoo.com> References: <E7CF486A-81BE-4B1C-A1E4-6B820F454259.ref@yahoo.com> <E7CF486A-81BE-4B1C-A1E4-6B820F454259@yahoo.com>
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On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 at 19:42, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I tend to use https://artifact.ci.freebsd.org/snapshot/*/*/*/*/*.txz > for crude bisecting without needing to do builds. > > Are you saying that such will no longer be a possibility? (This is > not a which-compression-style question.) With pkgbase these distribution sets are not used by the installer, so they will no longer be required for their original purpose. It may be that there are a sufficient number of other use cases (like yours) that we still build them anyway, for some time. I would imagine most use cases can also switch to pkgbase packages, though. If it's different kernels you're looking to test it will be straightforward to use the kernel packages instead. > I've also used the likes of the below with kgdb to look at reported > backtraces from problems that have been reported --for versions of > FreeBSD that I do not have a boot environment for. (Not wanting to > do a normal install on other media and to boot/configure it --just > to look around.) > > http://ftp3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/14.2-RELEASE/kernel.txz > http://ftp3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/14.2-RELEASE/kernel-dbg.txz > http://ftp3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/14.2-RELEASE/src.txz > > (But there is no equivalent for patch revisions of *.*-RELEASE 's .) > > http://ftp3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/arm64/13.4-STABLE/kernel.txz > http://ftp3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/arm64/13.4-STABLE/kernel-dbg.txz > http://ftp3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/arm64/13.4-STABLE/src.txz > > Similar question for those: no longer to be possible? The same applies to these ones - they won't be needed after moving to pkgbase, but I imagine we could still build them if they're being used for other purposes.
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