On 11/28/25 11:43, Mark Millard wrote:
On Nov 28, 2025, at 10:46, Colin Percival <[email protected]> wrote:
By the time a security advisory goes out, pkgbase bits will be
available for download. As release engineer and former security
officer, this was my #1 design requirement for pkgbase. :-)
Cool. Good to know.
I assume that, for now, that does not apply to armv7, given
its currently different (more historical style) behavior where
I can look at the dates/times for the 5.0-RELEASE build now.
Correct, armv7 is a Tier 2 platform which we don't build install
images for, so it didn't get pkgbase bits either. (Actually, the
fact that any Tier 2 platforms got pkgbase bits was something of a
happy accident in the way the release builds work.)
We'll probably add pkgbase bits for armv7 starting with 15.1. I
don't think it will be particularly difficult to implement, but I
didn't want to add any more complications during the 15.0 release
cycle.
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Colin Percival
FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
