pkg latest and quarterly not available on ppc64le?

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Blyssed


404 in latest and quarterly

since a couple of days i can't get pakcages via pkg, i tested 14.1/2/3 and 15 beta no pkgs
Code: 
64 bytes from 142.251.209.131: icmp_seq=838 ttl=117 time=29.293 ms
64 bytes from 142.251.209.131: icmp_seq=839 ttl=117 time=20.139 ms
64 bytes from 142.251.209.131: icmp_seq=840 ttl=117 time=18.038 ms
^C
--- google.de ping statistics ---
841 packets transmitted, 841 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 9.027/17.951/34.540/3.201 ms
root@blackbird:~ # pkg 
The package management tool is not yet installed on your system.
Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: y
Bootstrapping pkg from pkg+https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:powerpc64le/quarterly, please wait...
pkg: Attempted to fetch pkg+https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:powerpc64le/quarterly/Latest/pkg.pkg
pkg: Attempted to fetch pkg+https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:powerpc64le/quarterly/Latest/pkg.txz
pkg: Error: Not Found
A pre-built version of pkg could not be found for your system.
Bootstrapping pkg from pkg+https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:powerpc64le/kmods_quarterly_3, please wait...
pkg: Attempted to fetch pkg+https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:powerpc64le/kmods_quarterly_3/Latest/pkg.pkg
pkg: Attempted to fetch pkg+https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:powerpc64le/kmods_quarterly_3/Latest/pkg.txz
pkg: Error: Not Found
A pre-built version of pkg could not be found for your system.


is this expected?! i was working fine just a couple of weeks ago
 
It's Tier 2:
Tier 2 platforms are functional, but less mature FreeBSD platforms. They are not supported by the security officer, release engineering, and Ports Management Team.
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Also:
Code: 
Tier-2 support package sets:

    FreeBSD:13:i386
    FreeBSD:13:armv6
    FreeBSD:13:armv7
    FreeBSD:14:i386
    FreeBSD:14:armv6
    FreeBSD:14:armv7
    FreeBSD:14:powerpc (only pkgbase is updated)
    FreeBSD:14:powerpc64 (only pkgbase is updated)
    FreeBSD:14:powerpc64le (only pkgbase is updated)
    FreeBSD:15:armv7
    FreeBSD:15:powerpc64 (only pkgbase is updated)
    FreeBSD:15:powerpc64le (only pkgbase is updated)
    FreeBSD:16:armv7
    FreeBSD:16:powerpc64 (only pkgbase is updated)
    FreeBSD:16:powerpc64le (only pkgbase is updated)
https://pkg.freebsd.org
 
Blyssed said:
is this expected?
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Yes it's expected.

Certain Tier-2 platforms don't build 3rd party packages anymore (which includes ports-mgmt/pkg).

https://pkg.freebsd.org states for FreeBSD:14:powerpc64le "(only pkgbase is updated)" (see upload dates of "base_*" and "kmods_*" down below). No 3rd party application packages for 15 either.

Considering the upload dates of latest/quarterly package repositories, there have been no packages uploaded/available for a long time:
Rich (BB code): 
% lynx -dump https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:powerpc64le/
                       Index of /FreeBSD:14:powerpc64le/

    [1]File Name [2] ↓    [3]File Size [4] ↓   [5]Date [6] ↓
   [7]Parent directory/   -                   -
   [8]base_latest/        -                   2025-Oct-15 00:01
   [9]base_release_0/     -                   2024-Sep-20 00:11
   [10]base_release_1/    -                   2025-Feb-21 12:05
   [11]base_release_2/    -                   2025-Oct-01 00:04
   [12]base_release_3/    -                   2025-Oct-01 00:04
   [13]base_weekly/       -                   2025-Oct-12 12:02
   [14]kmods_latest/      -                   2025-Oct-15 00:01
   [15]kmods_latest_2/    -                   2025-Oct-14 12:02
   [16]kmods_latest_3/    -                   2025-Oct-15 00:01
   [17]kmods_quarterly/   -                   2025-Oct-15 00:01
   [18]kmods_quarterly_2/ -                   2025-Oct-14 12:02
   [19]kmods_quarterly_3/ -                   2025-Oct-15 00:01
   [20]latest             50                  2023-Jun-26 11:35
   [21]quarterly          53                  2024-Feb-25 09:29
   [22]release_0          53                  2023-Oct-18 18:49

On those platforms which don't offer pre-built packages, all 3rd party applications must be build from ports.
 
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i'm certain it worked fine for me just weeks ago

something changed, and the internet archive agrees, sadly the useful paths aren't archived, but it clearly shows that latest and quarterly don't have file sizes indicating that they indeed had 3rd party pkg's
2023 actually has the file paths in quarterly:

edit: 2024 also has the quarterly dir filled with 3rd party:

so it did work as I said, and i don't see a reason why you'd take this down?!

SirDice said:
It's Tier 2:
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yes maybe the change to tier2 was made recently and thus it was taken down, but why would you change the shipped versions that worked perfectly?
 
Blyssed said:
i'm certain it worked fine for me just weeks ago
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Blyssed said:
so it did work as I said, and i don't see a reason why you'd take this down?!
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The reason may security related (old application versions), or perhaps hardware resources (occupying to much disk space). You may get an exact answer on freebsd-ports@ mailing list.

By the way,
FreeBSD:14:powerpc[64]/latest[quarterly],
FreeBSD:14:powerpc64le/latest
FreeBSD:14:powerpc64le/quarterly
FreeBSD:15:powerpc[64|64le]/latest.
show now "404 Not Found". Apparently the repository sub-directories have been removed.

FreeBSD:16:powerpc64[le] have no package repositories at all.

As already mentioned, on those architectures not offering pre-built packages, you need to install packages from ports, best using one of the ports management tools mentioned in the handbook, or, create your own package repository using port-mgmt/poudriere [1] (as are the official packages are build on).

[1] 4.6. Building Packages with poudriere
 
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