Re: nightly snapshot for CURRENT ?

On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 2:48 PM Emmanuel Vadot <manu_at_bidouilliste.com> wrote:

>
>  Hello all,
>
>  I've just hit again something that I've hit (and probably others too)
> often.
>  If a change in base break some ports and it's snapshoted in the txz
> available at download.freebsd.org, you need to wait a week for the next
> tarball to be available.
>  Since poudriere uses the tarball when you setup a jail it means that
> the only solution you have is to recreate your jail by building it, and
> since building world nowdays is very expensive that delay your work too
> much.
>  Would it be possible to generate the tarballs every day instead of
> every week ? At least for tier-1 arches.
>
>  Cheers,
>
> --
> Emmanuel Vadot <manu_at_bidouilliste.com> <manu_at_freebsd.org>
> _______________________________________________
>

At first I thought you were referring to the weekly snapshots packaged as
install images:
https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/13.0/

But I think you are talking about the snapshots of each part, like base,
kernel, ports. src, etc to use as a roll your own install like:
https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/arm64/13.0-CURRENT/

>From my selfish perspective as a weekly installer of the regular Thursday
image or iso of 13.0 Current, I would hate to lose the pre-rolled
installer, and I think there are probably others like me. As long as you
keep the weekly install snapshots, it will not affect folks like me. I must
say that what you want to do is how NetBSD does their daily current
snapshots, and they do not even offer pre-rolled install images.

But you are a real developer and I'm just a retired guy playing with his
hobby, so go ahead and do what you think is best for you.

Clay