Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:31:24 +0700 From: Philip Paeps <philip@freebsd.org> To: Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreBSD pkgbase vs distsets. Message-ID: <956B42FE-17C6-429B-8A7F-C4924A46A1D0@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <aYqGehP0FAHO-NBk@amaryllis.le-fay.org> References: <CRIyUTXuehXBE99lRe33_6IfZ5sZmIsIh9v1TOeBVHIXwSuoZ0522ZJUbZHSfnxcljiLFtruM-lnRY1CufB2szqP21hiGHvugZIBQxE2dzA=@proton.me> <aYqGehP0FAHO-NBk@amaryllis.le-fay.org>
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On 2026-02-10 08:14:34 (+0700), Lexi Winter wrote: > hackee wrote in > <CRIyUTXuehXBE99lRe33_6IfZ5sZmIsIh9v1TOeBVHIXwSuoZ0522ZJUbZHSfnxcljiLFtruM-lnRY1CufB2szqP21hiGHvugZIBQxE2dzA=@proton.me>: >> As far as I understand, FreeBSD 16 is planned to drop distsets >> support >> and move entirely to pkgbase. I am writing to ask you to reconsider >> this decision. > > we aren't removing support for distsets in the build infrastructure. > we simply won't provide distsets on freebsd.org, and installing > FreeBSD > via distsets will not be supported. however, you can continue to > build > distsets for your own use. > > this will be supported on a "best effort" basis (i.e., if it breaks, > please send a patch) but several important downstream users including > CHERI still depend on this, so it shouldn't break too badly. Not to mention FreeBSD.org. ;) I've been experimenting with pkgbase for the cluster but it'll be a good while before we can put everything on pkgbase. A lot of what we do depends on being able to "tar -xf base.txz" somewhere. And a lot of muscle memory. We try to eat as much dogfood as we can though. Philiphome | help
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