FreeBSD 2021 Q1 Status Report

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@jjt-yn_t - nobody can reply to your posts. For some reason you've been shadowbanned, even though as of a month ago you were able to communicate with others.

I realise I'm breaking the rules revealing this but I can't see anything offensive in your multi-year history...

Offensive no, but every single reply appears like randomly generated text vaguely similar to the topic of parent. Kinda reminds me the answers I get from chatbots.

In case you were interested in the nature of the FreeBSD code slush:

Code slush begins 8 January 2021 Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the head branch will not require explicit approval, however new features should be avoided. Additionally, there can be no changes to the KBI until head is branched to stable/13.

Interesting update.. I thought it was a bit disappointing that they're building a community in discord though, as there's good open source alternatives available like matrix.

I'll stick with the IRC channels anyway.

pkgbase looks cool. Waiting for an online v12 stable > v13 stable [or equivalent ] success example to duplicate here.

What is it, exactly?

pkgbase? We split base up into packages and deploy binary updates via our package manager, pkg(8), instead of with patches distributed via freebsd-update(8). We have a lot of build knobs that can make some parts optional, and some of those get turned into their own pkgs that end-users can simply not install (or remove) rather than having to manually extricate those or rebuild with some knobs set.

You can find a better (though slightly outdated) description here: https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase

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