Van: Mark Millard <[email protected]>
Datum: woensdag, 19 november 2025 22:14
Aan: Colin Percival <[email protected]>, [email protected], 
FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <[email protected]>
Onderwerp: Re: Is there a reason that the various 
https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/PKGBASE-REPOS/15.0-*/ do not have 
armv7?

On Nov 19, 2025, at 08:21, Colin Percival <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 11/19/25 08:05, Mark Millard wrote:
>> The various:
>> https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/PKGBASE-REPOS/15.0-*/
>> have: aarch64/ arm64/ powerpc64/ powerpc64le/ riscv64/
>> So they include the tier 2 powerpc64 and powerpc64le but not
>> the tier 2 armv7. Is that intentional?
>
> Sort of.  The pkgbase repos are built as part of the process of building
> installer images, which we don't do for armv7; all we provide for armv7 is
> a single embedded image.


Does that mean that the default:

pkg+https://pkgbase.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:armv7/base_release_0/

(or whatever the details) will not work? Will that be
documented/handled someplace?

Will armv7 folks wanting to try pkgbase need to cause the use of
the likes of:

pkg+https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:armv7/base_release_0/

instead? (kmods_latest_0 and kmodes_quarterly_0 too.)


===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com





Hi Mark,

This point doesn't fix your pkgbase issue, but mind that armv7 never had the 
"legacy" distribution sets (like base.txz, kernel.txz) either.

This directory 
https://download.freebsd.org/releases/arm64/aarch64/13.5-RELEASE/ is not 
available for armv7 https://download.freebsd.org/releases/arm/armv7/.
So it is not really a regression. It is more that having the distribution 
set/pkgbase build would be a new feature for armv7 releases.

BTW: in Jenkins the base.txz is generated so the building blocks are in place 
somewhere. Although I can't find pkgbase artifacts.
https://artifact.ci.freebsd.org/snapshot/16.0-CURRENT/latest/arm/armv7/

Regards,
Ronald.

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