Re: official packages

On Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 08:44:20AM +0000, Doug Rabson wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 at 17:16, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 03:30:17PM +0000, Doug Rabson wrote:
> > > On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 at 14:25, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello everyone,
> > > >
> > > > The project has started building and populated official packages for
> > > > pkgbase.
> > > >
> > > > For people interested: just create a new repo like this:
> > > >
> > > > FreeBSD-base {
> > > >   url: pkg+https://pkg.freebsd.org/${ABI}/base_latest
> > > >   signature_type: "fingerprints"
> > > >   fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg"
> > > >   mirror_type: "srv"
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > the current build was built last friday, everything is ready to be
> > able to
> > > > publish in regular basis.
> > > >
> > > > Here is my proposal for main and stable branches:
> > > > - build everything in a end less loop (to detect failures as soon as
> > > > possible) and
> > > >   twice a day at a fix time, publish it under "base_latest"
> > > > - every sunday take the last built snapshot and publish it under the
> > > > base_weekly
> > > >   snapshot at a predictable time.
> > > >
> > > > For releng:
> > > > - built it in a end less loop and publish straight each time there was
> > > > changes
> > > >
> > > > For end users on stable/main the default would be: to end on the
> > > > base_weekly
> > > > (does not exists yet) repo, but users can if needed switch to
> > base_latest.
> > > >
> > > > For base_release_X for release users base_release_0 for 14.0 for
> > example.
> > > >
> > > > all the failures will be published in this mailing list!
> > > >
> > > > Is it ok with you?
> > > >
> > >
> > > This is great news, thanks for all the work getting this far. I see
> > > packages available for 15 already. If I understand you correctly,
> > packages
> > > for stable/13 and stable/14 are planned - is that right?
> >
> > No stable/13 is not planned, right now we have published:
> > - main
> > - stable/14
> > - releng/14.0
> >
> 
> It would be useful (to me at least) to add support for FreeBSD-13 to this
> list. I use pkgbase to build container images for OCI container engines
> such as podman and containerd and FreeBSD-13 is a solid platform for this
> kind of workload. The incremental cost for adding stable/13 (and ideally
> releng/13.x) should be small.
> 
> I have been using the package sets for current, stable/14 and releng/14.0
> this week and everything is working really well - thanks again for your
> work on this.
> 
> Doug

Once the automation is fully reliable and the CDN glitches have settled, then I
have nothing against extending to stable/13 and why not even releng/13.2, but
for now I would like to focus on the current set to make the infrastructure as
reliable as possible.

Best regards,
Bapt