On 11/28/25 09:55, Mark Millard wrote:
On Nov 28, 2025, at 09:34, Colin Percival <[email protected]> wrote:
On 11/28/25 09:28, Mark Millard wrote:
Using https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/ to select:
https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_release_0/
gets to:
https://cloudfront.aws.pkgbase.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_release_0/
which displays (in my context):
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it.
The document tree is shown below.
<Error>
<Code>AccessDenied</Code>
<Message>Access Denied</Message>
</Error>
What's the problem? The repositories work. They just don't have index pages.
So the https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:*/ are deliberately
providing links that can not be used for anything useful,
such as seeing if any files have been updated (new dates/times)?
Is there some way to give enough notice to likely avoid
the kind of message that I sent? Otherwise people will
continue to be astonished by the result and ask about
things appearing to be broken.
I can probably hand-write some index.html files to put in there.
Also: Is there another way to check on the status of
future pending updates to the files (new times)?
These repositories will be updated when there is a security advisory or
errata notice.
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Colin Percival
FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
