On 2026-02-10 08:14:34 (+0700), Lexi Winter wrote:
hackee wrote in
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As far as I understand, FreeBSD 16 is planned to drop distsets
support
and move entirely to pkgbase. I am writing to ask you to reconsider
this decision.
we aren't removing support for distsets in the build infrastructure.
we simply won't provide distsets on freebsd.org, and installing
FreeBSD
via distsets will not be supported. however, you can continue to
build
distsets for your own use.
this will be supported on a "best effort" basis (i.e., if it breaks,
please send a patch) but several important downstream users including
CHERI still depend on this, so it shouldn't break too badly.
Not to mention FreeBSD.org. ;)
I've been experimenting with pkgbase for the cluster but it'll be a good
while before we can put everything on pkgbase. A lot of what we do
depends on being able to "tar -xf base.txz" somewhere.
And a lot of muscle memory.
We try to eat as much dogfood as we can though.
Philip
