Re: New FreeBSD snapshots available: stable/13 (20220708 77712e81bf9)

On Jul 8, 2022, at 7:02 PM, Mark Millard <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Glen Barber <gjb_at_freebsd.org> wrote on
> Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2022 20:26:29 UTC :
> 
> . . .
>> Installation images are available for:
>> 
>> o 13.1-STABLE amd64 GENERIC
>> o 13.1-STABLE i386 GENERIC
>> o 13.1-STABLE powerpc GENERIC
>> o 13.1-STABLE powerpc64 GENERIC64
>> o 13.1-STABLE powerpc64le GENERIC64LE
>> o 13.1-STABLE armv6 RPI-B
>> o 13.1-STABLE armv7 GENERICSD
>> o 13.1-STABLE aarch64 GENERIC
>> o 13.1-STABLE riscv64 GENERIC
> . . .
> 
> Is the lack of the following expected to
> be an on-going status for 13.*-STABLE
> snapshot builds?
> 
> aarch64 RPI
> aarch64 PINE64
> aarch64 PINE64-LTS
> aarch64 PINEBOOK
> aarch64 ROCK64
> aarch64 ROCKPRO64
> 
> 
> Also, because old snapshot images are deleted even
> when there there is no new replacement for the type
> of snapshot, it has been some time since there have
> been any snapshot images for the above 6. It might
> be appropriate to delete the oldest image only when
> there is a newer one to be added, there by leaving
> some vintage of snapshot available, even if it is
> older.
> 
> 
> Hmm, looking, it does appear that:
> 
> http://ftp3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/arm64/13.1-STABLE/
> 
> does have the .txz material for the latest snapshot
> build attempt. So may be there is just an issue with
> producing .img files for Small Board Computers after
> FreeBSD is built or with building the involved ports
> providing the extra material involved. (These involve
> U-Boot and some involve other things as well.

No, is not expected to be ongoing.

The images are failing because the md(4)-backed image is running out of space, and I have not yet figured out why.

That said, I remove the images from +17 days well before kicking the snapshot builds.  I have no way to know what will fail or not.

Glen
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