Re: FYI: All but armv7 for https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:*/base_release_0/ get "code" AccessDenied and "Message" Access Denied

On Nov 28, 2025, at 09:34, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 11/28/25 09:28, Mark Millard wrote:
>> Using https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/ to select:
>> https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_release_0/
>> gets to:
>> https://cloudfront.aws.pkgbase.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_release_0/
>> which displays (in my context):
>> This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
>> <Error>
>> <Code>AccessDenied</Code>
>> <Message>Access Denied</Message>
>> </Error>
> 
> What's the problem?  The repositories work.  They just don't have index pages.

So the https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:*/ are deliberately
providing links that can not be used for anything useful,
such as seeing if any files have been updated (new dates/times)?

Is there some way to give enough notice to likely avoid
the kind of message that I sent? Otherwise people will
continue to be astonished by the result and ask about
things appearing to be broken.

Also: Is there another way to check on the status of
future pending updates to the files (new times)?

===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com