Re: ERROR 403: Forbidden for base_release_0 and 1

My question was triggered by the command "pkg version -vL=", why this
command shows all packages with prefix FreeBSD- as orphaned. The system
is a direct or new installation for the 15.0, not an upgrade from prior
version.

Then I saw that the access to base_release_0 and 1 are forbidden. But
the access to
https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_release_0/meta.conf as
Colin wrote, works fine.

# pkg version -vL=
FreeBSD-acct-15.0                  ?   orphaned: base/FreeBSD-acct
FreeBSD-acpi-15.0                  ?   orphaned: base/FreeBSD-acpi
FreeBSD-apm-15.0                   ?   orphaned: base/FreeBSD-apm
FreeBSD-at-15.0                    ?   orphaned: base/FreeBSD-at
FreeBSD-atf-15.0                   ?   orphaned: base/FreeBSD-atf
FreeBSD-atf-dev-15.0               ?   orphaned: base/FreeBSD-atf-dev
FreeBSD-atf-lib-15.0               ?   orphaned: base/FreeBSD-atf-lib
FreeBSD-audit-15.0                 ?   orphaned: base/FreeBSD-audit
FreeBSD-audit-dev-15.0             ?   orphaned: base/FreeBSD-audit-dev
FreeBSD-audit-dev-lib32-15.0       ?   orphaned:
base/FreeBSD-audit-dev-lib32
FreeBSD-audit-lib-15.0             ?   orphaned: base/FreeBSD-audit-lib
FreeBSD-audit-lib32-15.0           ?   orphaned: base/FreeBSD-audit-lib32
...

I'm still on investigation, what's happen.

Regards,

Daniel.

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen!

Daniel Haryo Sugondo

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Millard" <marklmi@yahoo.com>
To: "Daniel Haryo Sugondo" <daniel.sugondo@hlrs.de>, pkgbase@freebsd.org
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2026 8:26:41 PM
Subject: Re: ERROR 403: Forbidden for base_release_0 and 1

On 5/21/26 23:14, Daniel Haryo Sugondo wrote:
> Dear pkgbase maintainer,
> 
> the base_release_0 and base_release_1 aren't accessible.
> 
> Yesterday
> $ wget https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_release_0
. . .
> 2600:9000:2013:d000:14:fc66:e9c0:93a1|:443... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
> 2026-05-21 14:59:55 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
> 
> Today
> $ date
> Fri May 22 08:08:10 AM CEST 2026
> $ wget https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_release_0
> . . .
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
> 2026-05-22 08:08:13 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
> 
> Should it be so?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Daniel Sugondo.
> 

For official pkgbase releases, there are the likes of:

<https://download.freebsd.org/releases/PKGBASE-REPOS/15.1-BETA3/amd64/Latest/FreeBSD-15.1-BETA3-amd64-pkgbase-repo.tar>

(Also: CHECKSUM.SHA* files.)

So, the suggestive pattern:

<https://download.freebsd.org/releases/PKGBASE-REPOS/*.*-*/*/Latest/FreeBSD-*-pkgbase-repo.tar>

gives an idea where to get tar files that would contain the *.pkg files
(and likely more).

There are also snapshots in pkgbase form for 15.* and main [so: 16 as
stands], such as:

<https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/PKGBASE-REPOS/15.1-STABLE/aarch64/20260521/FreeBSD-15.1-STABLE-arm64-aarch64-pkgbase-repo-20260521-b718f7d88157-283647.tar>

(Also: CHECKSUM.SHA* files.)

Suggestive pattern:

<https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/PKGBASE-REPOS/*.*-*/*/YYYYMMDD/FreeBSD-*.*-*-*-*-pkgbase-repo-YYYYMMDD-*-*.tar>


Note: 15.0 does not look to have any snapshots. But there being only one
active 15.*-STABLE for stable/15 makes sense. I do not know why the:

https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/PKGBASE-REPOS/15.0-STABLE/

continues to exist after the files were depopulated from below there.

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Mark Millard
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