Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2025 23:45:59 +0000 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> To: Lars Tunkrans <drsnx60@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Release Engineering Team <re@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 15.0-BETA2 Now Available Message-ID: <01000199fedd985a-e0b91fe0-0b3d-48a8-ad47-62f823b2b073-000000@email.amazonses.com> In-Reply-To: <7280c0c0-eaaf-4707-bb07-935dda1b4038@gmail.com> References: <20251018212218.B3B58B199@freefall.freebsd.org> <81c24adc-0b1b-4a81-b063-f8349b17c799@gmail.com> <01000199fd6bee8d-4250bec4-6939-4998-855e-a17c0446d8c3-000000@email.amazonses.com> <7280c0c0-eaaf-4707-bb07-935dda1b4038@gmail.com>
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On 10/19/25 13:17, Lars Tunkrans wrote: > Den 2025-10-19 kl. 19:02, skrev Colin Percival: >> On 10/18/25 22:42, Lars Tunkrans wrote: >>> I downloaded the 15.0-Beta2-amd64-DVD1.iso >>> I attempted to install the supplied X11/KDE/GNOME packages >>> supplied on the DVD in the DVD: ./packages directory. >>> But the DVD:./packages/repos directory and the DVD:./ >>> packages/repos/FreeBSD_install_cdrom.conf file is missing . >>> >>> PLS advise is this is intentional and there is a new >>> method to install packages off the DVD . >> >> Not intentional. We shipped the packages but forgot the config file. It >> should be fixed in BETA3. (Patch is here: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D53199) >> > Good, thanks for fixiing the Issue. this is what the BETA's are > for. Indeed, and thank you for reporting it! (And in particular for reporting it as "this file is missing" rather than "installing packages doesn't work", which would have been much harder for me to track down!) -- Colin Percival FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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