Re: FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA4 Now Available

From: Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA4 Now Available
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2025 22:04:22 +0000

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

I got it. Thanks for explanation.

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Yasuhiro Kimura