Re: 15.0-ALPHA3 update did not update any FreeBSD-set-*.pkg files in https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_latest/ ?

[Just fising some wording.]

On Sep 21, 2025, at 11:17, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Sep 21, 2025, at 10:58, Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> Mark Millard wrote in <DAB662E4-AE29-4831-821D-EC87EEB50BF7@yahoo.com>:
>>> Looking at https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_latest/ shows
>>> 9 files updated to have FreeBSD-*-15.0.a3.*.pkg names. The rest still
>>> have FreeBSD-*-15.0.a2.*.pkg names. The 9 FreeBSD-*-15.0.a3.*.pkg are:
>> 
>> the timestamp on these packages indicate they were built after ALPHA2,
>> but before newvers.sh was updated to ALPHA3.  most likely, re@ ran the
>> build several times before updating newvers.sh and did not clean the
>> package repository in the interim.
>> 
>> as long as the contents are correct, this has no impact on pkg, and it's
>> expected that the base repository will have different package versions
>> because we only update packages which actually changed.
> 
> I'm confused by that statement. The below example is not
> based on 15.0, but some material from prior main 16
> reporting related to FreeBSD-set-* vintages and content,
> where some FreeBSD-set-* had not been updated, in this
> case FreeBSD-set-src :
> 
> deps: {
> FreeBSD-src: {
>     origin: "base",
>     version: "16.snap20250919160159"
> },
> FreeBSD-src-sys: {
>     origin: "base",
>     version: "16.snap20250919160159"
> }
> }
> 
> If the FreeBSD-set-src involved for such is
> older than the actual FreeBSD-src and
> FreeBSD-src-sys distributed, the "version:"
> fields are out of date, as they were in the
> main 16 example in question.
> 
> If they are ignored/unused and do not track
> updates, why are they even present?

Fixing that last statement to be explicit
and adding another question:

If the "version:" fields in a FreeBSD-set-*
are ignored/unused and do not track update
to members of the FreeBSD-set-* in question,
then why are the "version:" fields even
present in the data for the FreeBSD-set-* ?

Are the "version:" fields being out of date
and example of: contents are incorrect ?

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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com