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charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi everyone, With pkgbase landing in 15.0, I decided that it's time to announce the timeline for deprecation of the legacy "distribution sets". Here's the plan: 15.0-RELEASE: * PKGBASE becomes the default in release/Makefile and a new NOPKGBASE option is added. * The installer supports both install options, with dist sets marked as "legacy" in the pick-how-to-install menu. * The disc1 images only contain a pkgbase repo; people who want to install from disc1 without pkgbase will need an internet connection. * The dvd images contain both dist sets and a pkgbase repo suitable for offline installation with either mechanism. * Traditional FreeBSD Update will work for the entire 15.x branch, including security updates, since this is relatively easy to do as long as we have dist sets. * Work is underway to make freebsd-update behave as a wrapper around pkgbase on pkgbase-enabled systems (right now it just refuses to do anything). 16-CURRENT around 2026Q4: * NODISTSETS becomes the default in release/Makefile and a new DISTSETS option is added to enable them. * support for dist sets in the installer is disabled by default (build option to re-enable). 16.0-RELEASE and later: * Legacy distribution sets are not included on any release media. * Install images only support pkgbase. * Legacy FreeBSD Update does not exist on 16.x; users will need to pkgbasify their 15.x systems before upgrading to 16.x. * Code for distribution sets remains in the tree so that it can be used by downstream projects which aren't on pkgbase yet. 17-CURRENT around 2028Q4: * All the dist set code gets removed from main. Note that this is all about releases and binary updates; the traditional process for updating from source (installworld and friends) is not expected to change in the near future. It's possible that *eventually* that will move to a "stage the world, package it, and then install the packages" approach (just like ports moved from installing directly to "staging" over a decade ago) but if that change happens there will be ample notice. -- Colin Percival FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid