Whats the difference from "kmods_latest_0" and "kmods_latest"?

[Annalesa]

and difference from "kmods_quarterly_0" and "kmods_quarterly"
What's the 0 or ${VERSION_MINOR} mean?

 

[nxjoseph]

I guess it's for the first minor release like 15.0 or 14.0 which is 0.

 

[SirDice]

It's the minor version of the release. For 15.0 that's 0, for 14.3 it's 3. The difference between the kmod VERSION_NUMBER is really only important during the three month 'transition' period when a new minor version is released. During that time the packages in the 'regular' package repositories would still be built for the olderst minor version. This poses a bit of a problem for kernel modules (like graphics/drm-kmod) because kernel modules built for 14.3 will fail to load (or may even crash the system) when loaded on 14.4. In order to resolve that issue somewhat a kmod repository was created which would be built for each minor version specifically.

For the recent 15.0 release there simply is no previous minor release version (15.-1 doesn't exist). And for 14.3-RELEASE it might come into play again when 14.4 is released (expected in March 2026).

At this moment in time the "regular" repositories should be fine, the packages are all built specifically for the currently supported versions.