Re: official packages

From: Doug Rabson <dfr_at_rabson.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2023 15:30:17 UTC
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?