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

From: Yasuhiro Kimura <yasu_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 05:29:22 UTC 
From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 15.0-RC1 Now Available [The references to i386 images and update contexts need to be removed going forward]
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:54:06 -0800

> On 11/17/25 14:48, Mark Millard wrote:
>> 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
> 
> And yet pkg+https://pkgbase.freebsd.org/ works. :-)
> 
> The pkg(8) tool looks up SRV records
>> $ host -t srv _https._tcp.pkgbase.freebsd.org
>> _https._tcp.pkgbase.freebsd.org has SRV record 1 100 443
>> cloudfront.aws.pkgbase.freebsd.org.
> 
> and that's the real host.  (Right now; we might add other endpoints in
> the
> future.)

It causes problem that poudriere can't create jail with pkgbase method
and repository on pkgbase.freebsd.org because poudriere regards
"pkg+https://pkgbase.freebsd.org/" as invalid value of -U argument.

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Yasuhiro Kimura