Re: Why is https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:i386/base_latest/ existing and getting 15.0-ALPHA* updates?

On 9/21/25 18:39, Mark Millard wrote:
> https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:i386/base_latest/FreeBSD-src-15.0.a3.20250920235810.pkg
> and:
> https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:i386/base_latest/FreeBSD-kernel-generic-15.0.a3.20250921111746.pkg
> 
> and the like exist: so there is a pkgbase i386 15.0-ALPHA3 distribution.

This is a "nobody got around to turning it off" thing.

> Is https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ wrong about i386 for 15.x?

No.  There won't be release images for i386, there won't be freebsd-update
support for i386, and there won't be any more packages build from ports
for i386 (I'm not sure if they've been taken off pkg.freebsd.org yet, but
the system which was building them is now doing amd64 16.x packages).

There's just a lot of things to turn off when a platform is desupported and
not all of them happen at once. ;-)

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