Why pkg.freebsd.org subfolders indexes are forbidden ?

Don't know why but this looks like an error. I'm sure it'll be fixed soon.
 
Yes, pkg(8) should continue to function as normal. But it's often quite convenient to browse the repositories to see if a certain package is there or not.
 
That mailing list looks pretty dead. The only posts in 2020 appear to have been spam. I'm not sure which mailing list would be appropriate though, I'm somewhat torn between ports@ and pkg@.
 
You're probably better off checking http://freshports.org. Especially now that ports have a nice list with the various versions that are available in the package repositories. It even shows the different flavors, if they're available.
 
Closed as not a bug.
So we cannot download from older repositories now unless we magically guess the directory name?
When I was reconstructing SeaMonkey this feature was needed.
Maybe they should break down the packages into port categories to relieve server CPU load.
 
I use the older quarterly repository to rebuild SeaMonkey which was removed from ports.
Named Release0, Release1 Release2 for each quarter.
 
You could grab the packages.txz metafile and get the listing from there.
Agreed that it isn't as convenient.

(Actually for my uses, I find the pre-pkgng stuff to be more effective. I find ftp cleaner than metafiles. But this is a whole other topic that I won't dig up from the grave XD)
 
Here is an example of grabbing a package from the newest repository for cross building a i386 package for a NanoBSD build:
fetch http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:i386/quarterly/All/gettext-runtime-0.20.1.txz
 
Yes, and? It doesn't work because quarterly has 0.20.2. Just look at Freshports: devel/gettext-runtime. There's a table with all the various architectures and the versions that are available in the repositories.
 
np1 said:
It looks like pkg mirrors are not allowing indexes on folders anymore.
For example https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/quarterly/ now returns 403/Forbidden.

Anybody knows why ?
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Yes directory index is blocked.

But there is a good way to find your packages version:

1) check the version release that you would like to reinstall :
http://pkg.freebsd.org/
http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/
- lastest
- quarterly
- release_0
- release_1
- release_2

2) change to desired release date:
# ee /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf
url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/release_0",

3) now just search for the desired package:
(will rebuild packagesite index and find packages from release_0 to install from directly from net if you want)
# pkg search libreoffice
libreoffice-6.0.5_5 Full integrated office productivity suite --> now the real package version

4) install from internet
# pkg install libreoffice

Or you can download directly from pkg site if you want:
# fetch "http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_0/All/libreoffice-6.0.5_5.txz"
 
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