Re: 15* jails to build base packages

On Sep 9, 2025, at 00:02, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Mon 08 Sep 20:57, Mark Millard wrote:
>> Graham Perrin <grahamperrin_at_gmail.com> wrote on
>> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2025 01:40:43 UTC :
>> 
>>> If I'm not mistaken: when the 15.0-ALPHA1 installer uses base packages 
>>> from FreeBSD Project-provided repos,
>> 
>> pkg gets pkgbase *.pkg files from the likes of:
>> 
>> https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:*:*/base_*_[0-9]/ <https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:*:*/base_*_/>
>> 
>> For example:
>> 
>> https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:aarch64/base_release_3/
>> 
>> I expect the likes of (but do not know for sure):
>> . . .
> 
> The rule is simple:
> main base_latest
> stable/15 becomes base_latest and/or base_weekly
> releng/15 will be base_release_X
> 
> nothing more.

Good to know, thanks.

I'm looking forward to:

https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:16:*/base_latest/

once they are in place. I probably will not start
to use:

https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:*/base_latest/

(stable/15) instead of FreeBSD:14:* until:

https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:*/base_release_0/

is in place. (But, for now, the

https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:*/base_*/

are not updating to after 2025-Sep-04 anyway.)


I'm also looking forward to pkg 2.3.0 and later:

beefy18 with pkg 2.2.2 took 428:49:20 to finish building 36318
port-packages for main-am64-default (latest) after the
from-scratch "Only 519 queued/built" run.

ampere2 with pkg 2.2.2 took 506:30:03 to finish building 35240
port-packages for main-aarch64-default (latest) after the
from-scratch "Only 514 queued/512 built" run.

Getting back to the shorter build times for main-* will be
nice.


===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com