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Date:      Wed, 10 Jun 2020 00:56:33 +0000
From:      Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>
To:        Clay Daniels <clay.daniels.jr@gmail.com>
Cc:        Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org>, re@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nightly snapshot for CURRENT ?
Message-ID:  <20200610005633.GO97889@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAGLDxTXf3yW-Cg_27yPYjuT1cCZ96ripgq_UxoZys6saKkeHiw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 07:16:47PM -0500, Clay Daniels wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 2:48 PM Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> wro=
te:
>=20
> >
> >  Hello all,
> >
> >  I've just hit again something that I've hit (and probably others too)
> > often.
> >  If a change in base break some ports and it's snapshoted in the txz
> > available at download.freebsd.org, you need to wait a week for the next
> > tarball to be available.
> >  Since poudriere uses the tarball when you setup a jail it means that
> > the only solution you have is to recreate your jail by building it, and
> > since building world nowdays is very expensive that delay your work too
> > much.
> >  Would it be possible to generate the tarballs every day instead of
> > every week ? At least for tier-1 arches.
> >
>=20
> At first I thought you were referring to the weekly snapshots packaged as
> install images:
> https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/13.0/
>=20
> But I think you are talking about the snapshots of each part, like base,
> kernel, ports. src, etc to use as a roll your own install like:
> https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/arm64/13.0-CURRENT/
>=20
> From my selfish perspective as a weekly installer of the regular Thursday
> image or iso of 13.0 Current, I would hate to lose the pre-rolled
> installer, and I think there are probably others like me. As long as you
> keep the weekly install snapshots, it will not affect folks like me. I mu=
st
> say that what you want to do is how NetBSD does their daily current
> snapshots, and they do not even offer pre-rolled install images.
>=20
> But you are a real developer and I'm just a retired guy playing with his
> hobby, so go ahead and do what you think is best for you.
>=20

I agree with exactly with your point here, which is why I would like to
back-burner this topic until next week.  Just FWIW.

Glen


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