Re: testing HEAD and packages

On 04/09/2025 15:18, Lexi Winter wrote:

> … the next "proper" build is currently in progress and should be 
> finished in the next day or two. 

I made a similar estimate "less than two days from now" more than two 
days ago :-|

> i believe 15.0-ALPHA1 was delayed because of this.

At <https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/> the schedule does still 
show the /originally/ expected date (builds to begin tomorrow, Friday 
5th September), however I'm fairly certain that the schedule will 
change. Colin wrote: "…  I'm not planning on creating stable/15 and 
starting 15.0-ALPHA1 builds until there's a full pkg repository for 
amd64 at least.".

As things were seven hours ago:

> A quick review of 
> <https://pkg-status.freebsd.org/beefy18/build.html?mastername=main-amd64-default&build=p9652f95ce8e4_sb45a181a74c 
> <https://pkg-status.freebsd.org/beefy18/build.html?mastername=main-amd64-default&build=p9652f95ce8e4_sb45a181a74c>>:
>
>   *     95% complete after seventeen days
>   *     1725 packages remain
>   *     90 packages per hour, however the impulse (over the last ten
>     minutes) is *much lower, whenever I look*
>   *     x11/kde succeeded on Monday.
>
> 0.95 ÷ 17 ≈ 0.06, so, again, hopefully less than two days from now.
>

<https://www.freshports.org/x11/kde/#packages>

At the current impulse rate – high, relative to the lows that I have 
seen: 24 hours until completion (1350÷56). So I don't expect completion 
on the 5th.