Re: FYI: beefy18 finished building the first ports package build for amd64 main 16 (pkg 2.2.2 still), [FreeBSD:16:amd64/latest/ now populated]

On Sep 23, 2025, at 17:01, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote:

> https://pkg-status.freebsd.org/beefy18/build.html?mastername=main-amd64-default&build=p118fb2971704_s4ab64e34911
> 
> indicates that the last port-package build for main
> amd64 finished at:
> 
> Sep 23 21:51:52 UTC 2025
> 
> And the overall build finished at (computed from the
> start time 06 Sep 2025 01:35:48 GMT and overall elapsed
> time 428:20:14):
> 
> Sep 23 21:56:02 UTC 2025
> 
> The "latest/" in:
> 
> https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:16:amd64/latest/
> 
> does not yet exist. Once it does and has been
> populated, main 16 should have official
> FreeBSD-ports port-package builds available to
> install via pkg.

Update:

https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:16:amd64/latest/

now exists and has been populated.

> The build was based on use of pkg 2.2.2 . It will
> be the next build before pkg 2.3.1 (or later) is
> what is involved and distributed. Builds based
> on pkg 2.3.1 (or later) should take a lot less
> elapsed time, it will be interesting to see just
> how much the next time it does a (nearly) from
> scratch build.




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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com