Seems logical, thank You.
Temat: Re: FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA2 Now Available Data: 2025-09-15 1:17 Nadawca: "Colin Percival" <cperc...@tarsnap.com> Adresat: "vermaden" <verma...@interia.pl>; "FreeBSD Release Engineering Team" <r...@freebsd.org>; "freebsd-snapsh...@freebsd.org" <freebsd-snapsh...@freebsd.org>; "freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org" <freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org>; >> On 9/14/25 15:09, vermaden wrote: >> Seems that 15.0-ALPHA2 landed in the 'snapshots' dir: >> - https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/15.0/ >> >> While previous 15.0-ALPHA1 landed in the 'releases' dir: >> - https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/15.0/ >> >> Is it desired that way? > > Yes, the bits landing in "releases" was a mistake. I was set straight > by a few people including the previous release engineer -- ALPHA > builds count as "snapshots". > > This is mostly for obscure historical reasons, and if I'm still doing > this job when 16.0 comes around I might change things to treat > ALPHA builds the same way as BETA builds, but for now > "snapshots" is the right place for them. > > -- > Colin Percival > FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer > Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups > for the truly paranoid
