Are 2025Q3 quarterly package builds really out now?

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jensenet

I thought Q3 quarterly packages were out for about a week now, yet while using my package repo it still wants to install/downgrade perl 5.36. Am I missing something? Thanks. I'm using FreeBSD:13:amd64.
 
I think it's out. The quarterly repos are dated of just a few days ago.
You have several versions of perl5 available:
$ pkg search ^perl5.
perl5-5.36.3_3 Practical Extraction and Report Language
perl5-devel-5.41.3 Practical Extraction and Report Language
perl5.38-5.38.4 Practical Extraction and Report Language
perl5.40-5.40.2 Practical Extraction and Report Language


It's rather you have a software that wants the 5.36 version.
 
Maybe so. I would have guessed that perl5 would be like the 'latest' pkg version where a 'pkg upgrade' upgrades:

perl5: 5.36.3_3 -> 5.40.2_2

and all associated perl packages. A 'pkg upgrade' on the alleged Q3 doesn't upgrade any perl versions to 5.40 and still keeps 5.36; I just thought it was now v5.40.
 
BTW, This is 'latest'...I thought this would be same as 2025Q3 quarterly.
perl5-5.40.2_2 Practical Extraction and Report Language
perl5-devel-5.41.13_1 Practical Extraction and Report Language
perl5.36-5.36.3_4 Practical Extraction and Report Language
perl5.38-5.38.4_1 Practical Extraction and Report Language
 
jensenet said:
Am I missing something?
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Look at previous quarterly. After provisioning many people came here and asked "where is my browser/DE/WM?", "why pkg upgrade removed half of my system?", "I did fresh install, but I cant install browser/DE/WM", etc. Much better to wait some time, but have successful non-destructive upgrading.
 
Now the pkg update is stopped.
I'm hoping if I wait someone will fix it.
Code: 
$ w3m -dump http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64/ | grep '^[lq]'
latest/           -              2025-Jul-02 03:55
quarterly/        -              2025-Jul-06 04:24

$ w3m -dump http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/ | grep '^[lq]'
latest/            -              2025-Jul-02 12:11
quarterly/         -              2025-Jul-01 04:08
 
You can check the port build agent status for 13.x quarterly here . The "build" hash next to 135amd64-quarterly gets you to the dashboard for the 13.5 quarterly packages, which contain the log for perl-5.40 under "built" rather then "failed", "skipped", "ignored" or "queued", meaning that they've been built and published.
 
I think for me the confusion is "perl5" package. In the current Q3 quarterly, perl5 is still 5.36. I don't know when this gets replaced by 5.40. I guess I was assuming wrong that it should be now. Whereas 'latest' it's has been 5.40 since the removal of the language/perl5 port (5.36).

Since packages have been implemented, I haven't run into this weird case such as this with perl. It kind of breaks quarterly updates since I'm stuck on perl5 5.36 and cannot update packages (via pkg upgrade) or I have to use the 'latest' version. I was waiting a few weeks until Q3 to come out to fix things but it hasn't. I can always use ports but pkg upgrade is so much nicer.

I'm surprised others haven't run into this situation or express this issue. Or maybe they know something that I don't to get around this issue.
 
I think the quarterly packages just arrived for 14:amd64. pkg wants to upgrade perl5.36 to 5.40 among a ton of upgrades/reinstalls.
 
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