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

On 2025-09-22 11:05:52 (+0800), Colin Percival wrote:
> On 9/21/25 18:39, Mark Millard wrote:
>> 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).

The i386 packages for 15.x have not been removed from pkg.freebsd.org yet.  That's on my list ... somewhere. :)

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

In fact: we have learned the hard way that doing everything all at once never works well.

Philip