Re: git: dc5aae134a44 - releng/15.0 - release: Switch back to latest packages for now

From: Colin Percival <cperciva_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 05:36:10 UTC
On 10/16/25 22:27, Mark Millard wrote:
> Colin Percival <cperciva_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote on
> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 01:17:35 UTC :
> 
>> The branch releng/15.0 has been updated by cperciva:
>>
>> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=dc5aae134a44d18921e179355e9b93a7eff534ed
>>
>> commit dc5aae134a44d18921e179355e9b93a7eff534ed
>> Author: Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org>
>> AuthorDate: 2025-10-17 01:15:15 +0000
>> Commit: Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org>
>> CommitDate: 2025-10-17 01:15:15 +0000
>>
>> release: Switch back to latest packages for now
>>
>> Normally in BETAs the DVD images get packages from the latest
>> quarterly package build; but aarch64 does not yet have a quarterly
>> package set built for 15.x, and this made the BETA1 aarch64 builds
>> fail. Switch back to using packages from the "latest" package set.
> 
> I'll note that https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:aarch64/latest/
> dates back to 2025-Oct-04 17:03 or so, before releng/15.0 was
> branched.

Yup.  I don't actually expect these packages to be useful; the point is just
to have *something* so that the build doesn't fail.  Having dvd images with
useless packages is far better than not having any aarch64 images at all.

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Colin Percival
FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
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