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Date:      Tue, 23 Sep 2025 09:30:19 +0800
From:      Philip Paeps <philip@freebsd.org>
To:        Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>, Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD-pkgbase@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why is https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:i386/base_latest/ existing and getting 15.0-ALPHA* updates?
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On 2025-09-22 11:05:52 (+0800), Colin Percival wrote:
> On 9/21/25 18:39, Mark Millard wrote:
>> Is https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ wrong about i386 for 15.x?
>
> No.  There won't be release images for i386, there won't be freebsd-update
> support for i386, and there won't be any more packages build from ports
> for i386 (I'm not sure if they've been taken off pkg.freebsd.org yet, but
> the system which was building them is now doing amd64 16.x packages).

The i386 packages for 15.x have not been removed from pkg.freebsd.org yet.  That's on my list ... somewhere. :)

> There's just a lot of things to turn off when a platform is desupported and
> not all of them happen at once. ;-)

In fact: we have learned the hard way that doing everything all at once never works well.

Philip


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