pkg latest and quarterly not available on ppc64le?


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.

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
 
is this expected?
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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