Re: official packages

On 30/10/23 17:05, Renato Botelho wrote:
> On 30/10/23 11:25, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> The project has started building and populated official packages for 
>> pkgbase.
>>
>> For people interested: just create a new repo like this:
>>
>> FreeBSD-base {
>>    url: pkg+https://pkg.freebsd.org/${ABI}/base_latest
>>    signature_type: "fingerprints"
>>    fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg"
>>    mirror_type: "srv"
>> }
>>
>> the current build was built last friday, everything is ready to be 
>> able to
>> publish in regular basis.
>>
>> Here is my proposal for main and stable branches:
>> - build everything in a end less loop (to detect failures as soon as 
>> possible) and
>>    twice a day at a fix time, publish it under "base_latest"
>> - every sunday take the last built snapshot and publish it under the 
>> base_weekly
>>    snapshot at a predictable time.
>>
>> For releng:
>> - built it in a end less loop and publish straight each time there was 
>> changes
>>
>> For end users on stable/main the default would be: to end on the 
>> base_weekly
>> (does not exists yet) repo, but users can if needed switch to 
>> base_latest.
>>
>> For base_release_X for release users base_release_0 for 14.0 for example.
>>
>> all the failures will be published in this mailing list!
>>
>> Is it ok with you?
> 
> This sounds amazing.  Is there any instructions about how to convert a 
> CURRENT system used to be upgraded from src to pkgbase?

The procedure listed here has worked fine for me.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase


I used this no more than a year ago for a fresh machine (installed via 
installation media and then converted to pkgbase)

-- 
Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>