[One common message for freebsd-stable@ and freebsd-current@ rather than separate ones for each. Also "pkg rwhich" for port packages is involved: the https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:1[56]:amd64/latest/files.pkg files mentioned are involved in the "pkg rwhich" implementation.]
As I understand it /FreeBSD:*:amd64/latest/files.pkg generation has been suspended on the port-package builders until some issues are dealt with, such as (size related) mishandling the file by pkg 2.8.[01] leading to huge files downstream, like the over 1.5 GiByte file on amd64: # du -sAm /var/db/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-ports/db 1516 /var/db/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-ports/db My understanding is that pkg 2.8.2 is intended to avoid the size issue and part of that work has been committed. (But, as I understand, bapt is away for a while.) The /FreeBSD:1[56]:amd64/latest/files.pkg files have not updated in about a week, and so are likely inaccurate as well: Index of /FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/ File Name ↓ File Size ↓ Date ↓ Parent directory/ - - Latest/ - 2026-Jul-28 06:10 data.pkg 12734053 2026-Jul-28 05:47 packagesite.pkg 12735357 2026-Jul-28 05:47 files.pkg 43439619 2026-Jul-21 17:11 meta.conf 168 2026-Jul-20 21:24 meta 168 2026-Jul-20 21:24 Index of /FreeBSD:16:amd64/latest/ File Name ↓ File Size ↓ Date ↓ Parent directory/ - - Latest/ - 2026-Jul-28 07:20 packagesite.pkg 12691297 2026-Jul-28 06:54 data.pkg 12692357 2026-Jul-28 06:54 files.pkg 42323007 2026-Jul-21 20:20 meta 168 2026-Jul-20 23:03 meta.conf 168 2026-Jul-20 23:03 Other /FreeBSD:*:amd64/latest/ do not have files.pkg files at this point: There look to be just the 2. There look to be no /FreeBSD:*:amd64/quarterly/ examples. It would probably be best if the 2 out of date files.pkg files were removed for now until generation of such files is re-enabled on the pkg builder systems. -- === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com
