Re: FreeBSD 15.1-RC3 Now Available

On 2026-06-20 20:01, Colin Percival wrote:
...
>> Why is the release media missing so many FreeBSD-set- packages?
>> Notably all FreeBSD-set-*-jail packages?
> Which release media?  We have a different subset on different media.  In
> particular we don't put the debug packages onto the disc1/memstick images.
> 
> It's quite possible that we forgot to add the jail sets into disc1/memstick
> since those were added fairly late in the pkgbase process...


I had a hard time creating my own release media for pkgbase.
Some tweaks were needed to release/Makefile and 
release/scripts/pkgbase-stage.lua in order to get a custom KERNCONF 
defined kernel onto the release.
But I missed all the -set-*-jail packages.So I simply compared with the 
content of 
releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/15.1/FreeBSD-15.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso:


usr/freebsd-packages/offline/FreeBSD-set-base-15.1.pkg
usr/freebsd-packages/offline/FreeBSD-set-devel-15.1.pkg
usr/freebsd-packages/offline/FreeBSD-set-lib32-15.1.pkg
usr/freebsd-packages/offline/FreeBSD-set-minimal-15.1.pkg
usr/freebsd-packages/offline/FreeBSD-set-optional-15.1.pkg
usr/freebsd-packages/offline/FreeBSD-set-src-15.1.pkg
usr/freebsd-packages/offline/FreeBSD-set-tests-15.1.pkg
usr/freebsd-packages/offline/FreeBSD-smbutils-15.1.pkg


which is missing those too :-(

Do you intend to keep scripts/pkgbase-stage.lua?

I have many patches in the pipeline needed to allow release 
customization at all with pkgbase (for example to define a REVISION of 
15.1.2 and BRANCH_OVERRIDE=CUST, and custom KERNCONF etc...).

Unfortunately I can't find much time to continue maintaining my (local) 
enterprise deployment extensions for FreeBSD.
But I'm happily sharing a diff for some optimization discussions, in 
case we agree on 'offline' setup is still first-class method these days ;-)

Thanks,
-harry