Re: FreeBSD 15.0-BETA2 Now Available

From: <mdinon_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:46:31 UTC 
 hyyh
     On Sunday, October 19, 2025 at 07:46:23 PM EDT, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote:  
 
 On 10/19/25 13:17, Lars Tunkrans wrote:
> Den 2025-10-19 kl. 19:02, skrev Colin Percival:
>> On 10/18/25 22:42, Lars Tunkrans wrote:
>>>        I  downloaded  the  15.0-Beta2-amd64-DVD1.iso
>>>        I attempted  to install the supplied X11/KDE/GNOME  packages 
>>> supplied  on  the  DVD in the  DVD: ./packages  directory.
>>>         But   the  DVD:./packages/repos    directory  and  the  DVD:./ 
>>> packages/repos/FreeBSD_install_cdrom.conf    file  is missing .
>>>
>>>         PLS  advise  is  this   is  intentional  and  there is a new 
>>> method  to  install  packages  off   the  DVD  .
>>
>> Not intentional.  We shipped the packages but forgot the config file.  It
>> should be fixed in BETA3.  (Patch is here: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D53199)
>>
>      Good,  thanks  for  fixiing  the  Issue.  this  is  what the BETA's are  
> for.

Indeed, and thank you for reporting it!  (And in particular for reporting it
as "this file is missing" rather than "installing packages doesn't work",
which would have been much harder for me to track down!)

-- 
Colin Percival
FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
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