Re: FreeBSD 15.0-RC1 Now Available [The references to i386 images and update contexts need to be removed going forward]

On Nov 17, 2025, at 14:12, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 11/17/25 14:02, Mark Millard wrote:
>> Colin Percival <cperciva_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>> === Virtual Machine Disk Images ===
>>> 
>>> VM disk images are available for the amd64, i386, aarch64, and riscv64
>>> architectures. Disk images may be downloaded from the following URL
>>> (or any of the FreeBSD download mirrors):
>> i386?
>>> . . .
>>> === OCI Container Images ===
>>> 
>>> OCI container images are available for the amd64, i386, aarch64, and riscv64
>>> architectures, and can be found at
>> i386?
>>> The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of amd64, i386,
>>> and aarch64 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running
>>> earlier FreeBSD releases can upgrade by first installing any updates for
>>> the currently running release:
>>> . . .
>> i386?
> 
> Editing failure.  I have i386 in the template (because we do those on 14.x)
> and I forgot to remove it in my rush to announce 15.0-RC1.
> 
> It has been a long week...


A type of thing that may be odd for now for folks trying to test
15.0-RC1 :

# ping -4 pkgbase.freebsd.org
ping: cannot resolve pkgbase.freebsd.org: No address associated with name

# ping -6 pkgbase.freebsd.org
ping: cannot resolve pkgbase.freebsd.org: Address family for hostname not supported



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Mark Millard
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