For poudriere(-devel) use with -mpkgbase=??? use, what FBSDVERSNO values will be supported for: -v FBSDVERSNO ?? use, what FBSDVERSNO values will be supported for: -v FBSDVERSNO ?

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From: Mark Millard <marklmi_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2025 20:42:56 UTC

For the likes of:

# poudriere jail -c -jJAILNAME -aABIARCHNAME -U https://pkg.freebsd.org -mpkgbase=PKGBASENAME -v FBSDVERSNO

will poudriere support FBSDVERSNO==14 ? Support just 15<=FBSDVERSNO<=16 ?


I ask this because:

) No FreeBSD:14:* ABI's are officially supported (any are experimental)
   for pkgbase use. FreeBSD:15:* starts the official support. (Or that
   is my understanding.)

) FreeBSD:14:* does not have base package sets at all: no FreeBSD-set-*
   (In other words: FreeBSD's base packaging configuration is rather
   different for FreeBSD 15 and later compared to 14.)

) FreeBSD:14:* does not have a fully matching list of base packages
   ( FreeBSD-* , ignoring the FreeBSD-set-* issue ). (Again:
   FreeBSD 15's packaging configuration is rather different than
   FreeBSD 14's.)

Note: Technically what varies here is FreeBSD's various configurations
       of how pkg is used, not the pkg program itself. The question is
       not about which version(s) of pkg are supported, but which
       versions of FreeBSD-base-packaging are supported, identified by
       the FreeBSD major version numbers involved.

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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com