Re: Switching release media dist sets to .tzst (tar + zstd)?

On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 at 19:42, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I tend to use https://artifact.ci.freebsd.org/snapshot/*/*/*/*/*.txz
> for crude bisecting without needing to do builds.
>
> Are you saying that such will no longer be a possibility? (This is
> not a which-compression-style question.)

With pkgbase these distribution sets are not used by the installer, so
they will no longer be required for their original purpose.

It may be that there are a sufficient number of other use cases (like
yours) that we still build them anyway, for some time. I would imagine
most use cases can also switch to pkgbase packages, though. If it's
different kernels you're looking to test it will be straightforward to
use the kernel packages instead.

> I've also used the likes of the below with kgdb to look at reported
> backtraces from problems that have been reported --for versions of
> FreeBSD that I do not have a boot environment for. (Not wanting to
> do a normal install on other media and to boot/configure it --just
> to look around.)
>
> http://ftp3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/14.2-RELEASE/kernel.txz
> http://ftp3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/14.2-RELEASE/kernel-dbg.txz
> http://ftp3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/14.2-RELEASE/src.txz
>
> (But there is no equivalent for patch revisions of *.*-RELEASE 's .)
>
> http://ftp3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/arm64/13.4-STABLE/kernel.txz
> http://ftp3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/arm64/13.4-STABLE/kernel-dbg.txz
> http://ftp3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/arm64/13.4-STABLE/src.txz
>
> Similar question for those: no longer to be possible?

The same applies to these ones - they won't be needed after moving to
pkgbase, but I imagine we could still build them if they're being used
for other purposes.