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 10:46, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 11/28/25 10:27, Mark Millard wrote:
>> On Nov 28, 2025, at 10:03, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> On 11/28/25 09:55, Mark Millard wrote:
>>>> 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.
>> The actual available for download time for a distribution
>> server and the notice time about the update need not
>> be identical.
> 
> They will be for these files.  This is why I created the separate
> pkgbase.freebsd.org infrastructure; clusteradm decided at the last
> minute that it should be exposed via pkg.freebsd.org but those
> systems just 302 requests over to the "real" servers which are
> guaranteed to lag no more than 60 seconds.
> 
> By the time a security advisory goes out, pkgbase bits will be
> available for download.  As release engineer and former security
> officer, this was my #1 design requirement for pkgbase. :-)

Cool. Good to know.

I assume that, for now, that does not apply to armv7, given
its currently different (more historical style) behavior where
I can look at the dates/times for the 5.0-RELEASE build now.


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Mark Millard
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