Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2025 10:03:01 -0800 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> Cc: Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD-pkgbase@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FYI: All but armv7 for https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:*/base_release_0/ get "code" AccessDenied and "Message" Access Denied Message-ID: <8f77be9f-18c8-45e6-bafe-9ac852b7c413@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <22955814-4029-4CB2-B858-6B8B6330D858@yahoo.com> References: <47A5BFC2-CB6C-44A0-9D9F-CE6DD3969E4E@yahoo.com> <7c102739-0759-484c-b154-6ebf7cd57260@freebsd.org> <22955814-4029-4CB2-B858-6B8B6330D858@yahoo.com>
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On 11/28/25 09:55, Mark Millard wrote: > On Nov 28, 2025, at 09:34, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> wrote: >> On 11/28/25 09:28, Mark Millard wrote: >>> Using https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/ to select: >>> https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_release_0/ >>> gets to: >>> https://cloudfront.aws.pkgbase.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_release_0/ >>> which displays (in my context): >>> This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below. >>> <Error> >>> <Code>AccessDenied</Code> >>> <Message>Access Denied</Message> >>> </Error> >> >> What's the problem? The repositories work. They just don't have index pages. > > So the https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:*/ are deliberately > providing links that can not be used for anything useful, > such as seeing if any files have been updated (new dates/times)? > > Is there some way to give enough notice to likely avoid > the kind of message that I sent? Otherwise people will > continue to be astonished by the result and ask about > things appearing to be broken. I can probably hand-write some index.html files to put in there. > Also: Is there another way to check on the status of > future pending updates to the files (new times)? These repositories will be updated when there is a security advisory or errata notice. -- Colin Percival FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoidhome | help
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