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

On 11/28/25 09:55, Mark Millard wrote:
> 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.

I can probably hand-write some index.html files to put in there.

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

These repositories will be updated when there is a security advisory or
errata notice.

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Colin Percival
FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
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