Re: FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA1 Now Available

On 9/7/25 17:52, Yasuhiro Kimura wrote:
> From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
>> I'm not immediately sure if this was a bug in the code or if I broke
>> things
>> because of the way I built these images -- ALPHAs are a weird point
>> between
>> snapshots and releases since they're part of the release cycle but are
>> still
>> being built from the stable branch.
> 
> There are following lines in usr.sbin/bsdinstall/scripts/mirrorselect.
> [...]
> 
> So bsdinstall has regarded ALPHA as snapshot since October 8, 2018
> when main branch was 12.0-ALPHA10.

Ah yes, -ALPHA builds used to be closer to snapshots and were built from
main; they're now built from stable and are more similar to BETAs.  I
might change how we handle them in 16.0, if I'm still the release engineer
two years from now, but for now I'll stick with what we did in the past.

Thanks!

-- 
Colin Percival
FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid