On 10/5/25 22:30, Mark Millard wrote:
Lexi Winter <ivy_at_freebsd.org> wrote on
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2025 02:03:17 UTC :
in 15.0 we will ship pkgbase as an alternative to the dist sets for base
system installation. pkgbase is entirely optional and for at least 15.0,
we will continue to support dist set installation with freebsd-update.
. . .
This seems to also be an announcement of a change to what the 15.0
draft release notes ( https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/relnotes/ )
have said:
QUOTE
FreeBSD Update is probably not going to exist in 15.0-RELEASE! The text
below is boilerplate from previous releases and should be replaced with
instructions for using pkgbase once those are finalized.
END QUOTE
It would be good for the draft to have its "probably" status for this
switched at some point.
Yeah, I'll definitely fix that before the release. Plans have changed and
in particular we've determined that -- since we can ship DVD images with
identical binaries via dist sets and packages -- supporting "legacy" FreeBSD
Update in 15.x should be reasonably straightforward.
(This was hinted at in my earlier announcement about the timeline for
deprecation of dist sets.)
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