FreeBSD-provided packages: status

[grahamperrin]

helloSystem/ISO#141 (comment) @probonopd asked:

How did you find that page, and what does it tell us?

[probonopd]

Somehow
http://beefy14.nyi.freebsd.org/jail.html?mastername=130amd64-quarterly
seems to have that kind of information.

But how do I get the info why print/hplip is not built for FreeBSD:14:amd64?

140amd64-quarterly does not appear to exist, at least not on http://beefy14.nyi.freebsd.org... maybe on another server? https://pkg-status.freebsd.org/ may hold this information, albeit in a very cryptic form?

The maintainer of freshports.org is wondering the same thing:
FreshPorts/freshports#384 (comment)

[grahamperrin]

Please see my suggested answer.

[grahamperrin]

… why print/hplip is not built for FreeBSD:14:amd64? …

The screenshot in the question showed the Reason in this case:

net-snmp-5.9.1_1,1

There's a log. Orientation:

[grahamperrin]

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/committers-guide/#ports-qa-misc-correctly-building:

How do I know if my port is building correctly or not?

The packages are built multiple times each week. If a port fails, the maintainer will receive an email from [email protected].

Reports for all the package builds (official, experimental, and non-regression) are aggregated at pkg-status.freebsd.org.

Retrospective

The Package availability in repositories issue began with a -CURRENT example.

A 12.2⋯ example appeared later in 2021 at #224 (comment).

Steps

FreeBSD:13:amd64

1. https://pkg-status.freebsd.org/builds?type=package
2. seek 131amd64
3. aim for the required row
4. click the Poudriere Build icon.

Orientation:

FreeBSD:14:amd64

1. https://pkg-status.freebsd.org/?type=package&all=1 (view all)
2. seek main-amd64
3. use the Started (UTC) column to sort, if required
4. aim for the required row
5. click the Poudriere Build icon.

Orientation:

The somewhat different steps are to work around FreeBSD bug 260152 – Listings via pkg-status.freebsd.org appear outdated for main-amd64, main-arm64 (FreeBSD:14:aarch64) ….

[probonopd]

Thanks @grahamperrin - very helpful. Albeit a bit more complicated than I was hoping for.

[grahamperrin]

The more recent answer #382 (comment) refers to more recent documentation, published from my freebsd.org home directory.

[grahamperrin]

Via https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/102lt8a/-/ (2023-01-23):

• Using package build records at pkg-status.freebsd.org