Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2025 15:01:22 -0400 From: Ian FREISLICH <ianfreislich@gmail.com> To: Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org>, "Patrick M. Hausen" <pmh@hausen.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pkg-static: Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected. Message-ID: <1b2a543f-aace-4d97-bf24-bb3a884df5b5@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <dc66eb81-58a3-474d-aa82-1bd0d2de2f22@FreeBSD.org> References: <6dedf742-48bf-4b67-9993-67933104ba67@gmail.com> <7C4AA985-2F06-4580-93C8-374A75EC4965@hausen.com> <bfb0366e-de86-4dae-ae1e-c8dad45e79f4@FreeBSD.org> <e1aef468-97ff-491e-957f-1088d03cc5e4@gmail.com> <dc66eb81-58a3-474d-aa82-1bd0d2de2f22@FreeBSD.org>
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On 2025-09-09 14:58, Kyle Evans wrote:
> On 9/9/25 13:33, Ian FREISLICH wrote:
>> On 2025-09-09 14:29, Kyle Evans wrote:
>>> On 9/9/25 13:27, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>>> Am 09.09.2025 um 20:11 schrieb Ian FREISLICH <ianfreislich@gmail.com>:
>>>>> Every release this happens. pkg bootstrap -f doesn't fix it either
>>>>> because there's no FreeBSD:16:amd64/latest.
>>>>
>>>> There is no release 16 (yet), so there are no packages.
>>>>
>>>> You have to build from ports of you run -current.
>>>>
>>>> HTH,
>>>> Patrick
>>>
>>> We certainly build packages for -current, but the branch happened
>>> only a little bit ago; it's another 12-14+ day
>>> cycle to get a fresh package set and alleviate the above condition.
>>
>> In fairness, at the branch point, 15-prerelease and 16-current ports
>> trees are the same. Can't the whole set just be copied with the index
>> updated to 16?
>>
>> Ian
>>
>
> You could maybe make that assumption, but it's not really that easy; the
> ABI ("FreeBSD:15:amd64") is encoded in each pkg itself along with a
> FreeBSD_version annotation for the exact version from sys/param.h at the
> time of the build. You'd also have new failures from bad version checks
> that will be ignored because we just copied the previous version's set,
> which then gets a bit confusing if we suddenly lose them in an actual -
> CURRENT build ("Well, we had 16-CURRENT packages for them before, why
> don't we now?").
Thanks for the explanation.
Ian
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