Unofficial FreeBSD pkgbase repository

Welcome to alpha.pkgbase.live, the unofficial repository for the FreeBSD PkgBase project.

The sets below are built via poudriere(8), and can be configured by adding the following config to /usr/local/etc/pkg/base.conf:

# FreeBSD pkgbase repo

FreeBSD-base: {
  url: "https://alpha.pkgbase.live/release/${ABI}/latest",
  signature_type: "pubkey",
  pubkey: "/usr/share/keys/pkg/trusted/alpha.pkgbase.live.pub",
  enabled: yes
}

Replace release in the above URL with your desired branch. Either release, stable, or current.

Then put our key into /usr/share/keys/pkg/trusted/.

Package Sets:

Release

• FreeBSD:13:amd64
• FreeBSD:13:aarch64

Stable

• FreeBSD:13:amd64
• FreeBSD:13:aarch64

Current

• FreeBSD:14:amd64
• FreeBSD:14:aarch64

How To

While the PkgBase Wiki provides some info on how to get started, I would like to distill it, so check out my Howto

Pending Changes

Rather than doing any awful hacks myself, I like to push changes upstream. This also feels more in spirit with the Call-for-Testing.

• HTTP Caching of packages
• Fixes to various sytems to deal with .pkgsave files left from bootstrapping
  • rc
  • kldxref

ToDo

• fix bsdinstall and offer ISO downloads which allows for an easy bootstrap!
• create bootloader (post) install script to update loader.efi
• fix bootloader to allow choosing which kernel to boot!
• fix FreeBSD-base packages’ origin to not only say base, but FreeBSD-base/foo.

Done

• This build server is now self-hosting!
• In addition, we’ve scaled up this server to a modern vServer using modern versions of Virtio!
• Package Signing
• Building multiple kernel
• And packaging multiple Kernels
• build WITH_REPRODUCIBLE_BUILD=YES
• offer “production build” — stable/13 is now branched!

Contact

This service is provided by Mina Galić.

You can reach her on numerous FreeBSD IRC channels as meena (or meeena), or on the Fediverse as @meena@cathode.church