Re: official packages

From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2023 16:47:05 UTC
On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 01:05:33PM -0300, Renato Botelho wrote:
> On 30/10/23 11:25, Baptiste Daroussin 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 sounds amazing.  Is there any instructions about how to convert a
> CURRENT system used to be upgraded from src to pkgbase?

Not yet, this is in my TODO, for the next month a "install2pkgbase.sh"

Best regards,
Bapt