Re: FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA4 Now Available

On 9/27/25 14:46, Yasuhiro Kimura wrote:
> From: Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>
>> The freebsd-update bits for ALPHA4 should arrive later in the weekend,
>> and
>> freebsd-update from ALPHA3 to ALPHA4 will be safe.
> 
> Do you mean it is impossible to update 15.0-ALPHA[12] to later version
> with freebsd-update?

Correct.  The server-side FreeBSD Update bits aren't in place for ALPHA1
and ALPHA2; those are seeded from dvd1.iso and we didn't build that for
the first two ALPHAs.

(Side note: Historically "ALPHA" has been a weird in-between which counts
as a "snapshot" build in some ways and counts as a "release" build in other
ways.  This has caused a number of glitches during the 15.0 release cycle
so far, and I've made a note that before we reach 16.0 I want to fix things
so that they are treated the same way as "BETA" in all respects except for
the branch they're built from.)

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