Re: What happened to 16?

[Chris]

On 2025-12-08 12:48, S. Ross Gohlke wrote:

On 12/8/25 13:03, S. Ross Gohlke wrote:

On 12/8/25 01:37, Chris wrote:

I just got a new laptop and tried to boot 13.5,14 and 15
but it hangs at the video -- something about loosing contact
with sc. So I went to get a copy of 16. But download.freebsd.org
doesn't know where it is. All the links to it from FreeBSD.org
return 404.

So where is it?

Thanks! :-)

You can generate your own artifacts from pkgbase packages installed in an alternate root.

Add the package repository configuration:

    FreeBSD-base: {
      url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/base_latest";,
      mirror_type: "srv",
      signature_type: "fingerprints",
      fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
      enabled: yes
    }

To generate src.txz:

    # env ABI=FreeBSD:16:amd64 pkg -r /mnt/src install FreeBSD-set-src
    # tar -acof /var/tmp/src.txz -C /mnt/src usr/src

To generate base.txz:

    # env ABI=FreeBSD:16:amd64 pkg -r /mnt/base install FreeBSD-set-base
    # mtree -deiU -f /etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist -p /mnt/base
    # mtree -deiU -f /etc/mtree/BSD.usr.dist -p /mnt/base/usr
    # tar -acof /var/tmp/base.txz -C /mnt/base .

The mtree commands may or may not be necessary, but in my case I expect /usr/obj to exist. If you want to pretend like this never happened, remove the package repository configuration and database ($PKG_DBDIR/repos/FreeBSD-base) once you have the artifacts.

On second thought, the local pkg database will still be "polluted".

True. Good call, and thanks again, Ross!

So does anyone know when "CURRENT" images will hit the servers again?

Thanks again!

You probably want to delete the packages first.

    # env ABI=FreeBSD:16:amd64 pkg -r /mnt/src delete FreeBSD-set-src

    # env ABI=FreeBSD:16:amd64 pkg -r /mnt/src autoremove

    # env ABI=FreeBSD:16:amd64 pkg -r /mnt/base delete FreeBSD-set-base

    # env ABI=FreeBSD:16:amd64 pkg -r /mnt/base autoremove

This might have consequences for your regular installation, so use with caution. Honestly, you want a dedicated PKG_DBDIR too, but that entails extra complications.

You will still have the packages, which you could exclude from your normal cache by setting PKG_CACHEDIR in the above pkg commands.

--Chris

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