Re: FreeBSD-14.3: vscode not available through pkg

As mentioned in my original email, I'm on the latest repo & yes, this is on
x86_64. I'm avoiding ports due to the high cost of time consumption.

Thanks,

On Sun, Jan 18, 2026, 23:26 Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote:

> [Not my day. I somehow caused the other To Email address to be wrong
> as well as having the correction, despite it being right in the first
> message. So the prior one did not even make it to the list. Hopefully
> this one will be available and reasonable to reply to for all the Email
> addresses.]
>
> On 1/18/26 21:14, Mark Millard wrote:
> > [Just correcting a To Email address.]
> >
> > On 1/18/26 21:02, Mark Millard wrote:
> >> On 1/18/26 19:49, Maku Bex wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> Was vscode removed from pkg repo?
> >>>
> >>> Running the command `pkg install vscode` produces the error message
> >>> "pkg: No packages available.........." I'm on RELEASE-14.3-p7 and using
> >>> the latest repo. I'm able to install other (available) packages so pkg
> >>> is working as it should.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> Quarterly? Latest? (One can be available when the other is not, for
> >> example. Some times the versions are distinct; other times they are the
> >> same.) I've also assumed amd64 --but that is not the only possibility.
> >> Different platforms need not match for current-version status.
> >>
> >> vscode-1.108.0 (quarterly) and vscode-1.108.1 (latest) both depend on
> >> electron39-29.2.7 currently.
> >>
> >> electron39-29.2.7 is not the version being built for official
> >> distribution (such resource and time intensive builds get only one
> >> version built for distribution):
> >>
> >> The electron* versions built for distribution are currently:
> >> Latest:    electron37-37.10.3
> >> Quarterly: electron37-37.10.3
> >>
> >> As stands, you would have to build:
> >>
> >> electron39-29.2.7
> >> vscode-1.108.* (the appropriate one for your context)
> >>
> >> locally (including any prerequisites not otherwise available with the
> >> appropriate version) and install the subset of things that are required
> >> at run-time.
> >>
> >> However, since builds and installs need not be independent, you might
> >> have to build and install more to be based on the same port source code
> >> vintages as used to do the above builds. Or just build and install
> >> everything locally so that they are consistent.
> >>
> >>
> >> Note, as stands: For quarterly, only deltachat-desktop-2.35.0 and
> >> vscode-1.108.0 depend on electron39-29.2.7; only logseq-0.10.15_1
> >> depends on electron38-38.7.2 . For latest, only deltachat-desktop-2.35.0
> >> and vscode-1.108.1 depend on electron39-29.2.7; only logseq-0.10.15_1
> >> depends on electron38-38.7.2 .
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
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