On 3/14/26 07:08, Graham Perrin wrote: > On 14/03/2026 09:22, Tatsuki Makino wrote: > >> … >> >> It seems that at least on disc1 and the memstick, it was included as >> distributed files. >> And if we don't extract it, we will reach a dead end :) >> >> It seems that the RELEASE version installer also included the git >> package. … > > > releng/15.0 dvd1.iso files included the devel/git@lite package for (at > least) Tier-1: > > <https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/releng/15.0/release/ > scripts/pkg-stage.sh#L16-L37>
Bob P. likes to build from source, even on armv7. Some interesting FreeBSD OS bugs have been discovered based on his armv7 activities and his reports about them --bugs that were fixed. Some of those bugs were not armv7 specific but were probably easier to hit on the armv7 than on tier 1 platforms in any normal tier 1 configuration. Bob P.'s tier 2 context is armv7 as far as I know. For armv7 there is only one 15.0 release image: https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/15.0/FreeBSD-15.0-RELEASE-arm-armv7-GENERICSD.img.xz So there is no armv7 *dvd1.iso* to be found. (Same for 14.[34] .) Also, as far as I know, Bob is using main [so: 16.0] for armv7, not 15.0 or 14.[34] or 13.5 . There is no release build of main [16.0] for any platform/architecture. > > stable/15 does not yet include x11/kde or x11/plasma6-plasma: For main [so: 16.0], for armv7 there is only on snapshot: https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/16.0/FreeBSD-16.0-CURRENT-arm-armv7-GENERICSD-20260302-5d9b185c33ae-284268.img.xz So there is no armv7 *dvd1.iso* to be found. So no pre-built port-packages by that route. > > <https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/stable/15/release/scripts/ > pkg-stage.sh#L16-L38> > > I expect x11/kde to reappear (in lieu of x11/gnome) when FreeBSD > Installer gains integration with the desktop script. > > > Instructions/notes that might have been appropriate here for riscv64, powerpc64le, and/or powerpc64 (all are tier-2 examples) do not necessarily work here for armv7. So up front identification of armv7 as a context of interest could have helped. Tier-2 status details are not uniform across all the platforms. If I understand right, 15.1+ intends on making armv7 also have the other normal release builds available. So being explicit about armv7 for 15.* might not be as important once 15.1 is in place . It also could have helped if main [so: 16.0] had been indicated up front, given the lack of any releases for it. -- === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com
