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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:31:24 +0700 X-Mailer: MailMate (2.0r6290) Message-ID: <956B42FE-17C6-429B-8A7F-C4924A46A1D0@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: References: List-Id: Packaging the FreeBSD base system List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-pkgbase List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-pkgbase@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2026-02-10 08:14:34 (+0700), Lexi Winter wrote: > hackee wrote in = > : >> 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. Philip