<freebsd_at_oldach.net> wrote on Date: Thu, 08 May 2025 21:48:21 UTC : > On Thu, 08 May 2025 08:59:25 -0700, Chris <[email protected]> wrote: > >On 2025-05-08 06:23, [email protected] wrote: > >> Moin Rahman wrote on Thu, 08 May 2025 14:19:05 +0200 (CEST): > >>> Let me be blunt, because this needs to be said clearly. > >> > >> No necessity. It boils down to the fact that STABLE's and RELEASE's > >> FreeBSD.conf refer to different repository URLs. Which I simply wasn't > > > >> aware of. Perhaps documented somewhere? > >Please see pkg.conf(5). :) > > So ... pkg.conf(5) ... I couldn't find -clear- documentation on anything other > than what a URL field does in that man page. > > Now I happen to have some familiarity (which will quite likely be challenged > on > these lists) with this entire ports system. With this in mind, I'll note that > the example: > > url: "pkg+https://pkg.freebsd.org/${ABI}/latest"; > > comes with no explanation of the "pkg+https" pseudo-schemea, no clear idea of > what ABI should be (yes I am aware this is auto generated, that's not the > point), and no list that I've found (even unmaintained) of supported > scheme/ABI > combinations. (Does FreeBSD:13:i386 exist?)
A way to discover answers to such questions is: (I'm not getting into alternatives that may be should exist here.) The links (URL content) on https://pkg.freebsd.org/ look like (some examples): https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64/ . . . https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:armv7/ . . . https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:powerpc64le/ (Freshports extracts these from the web page and uses them.) Despite not having a link listed, https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:i386/ does exist and is operational. (Of course, Freshports ends up not listing main's i386 packages because of lack of the page having a link.) === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com
