Solved Why was xfce pkg not available on CURRENT?

Espionage724 · Mar 30, 2026

Was doing a fresh 16.0-CURRENT install, installed xorg, and pkg install xfce didn't work (worked fine 14.1, 15.0, and 16.0-C until a few days ago)

SirDice · Mar 30, 2026

Thread 'Topics about unsupported FreeBSD versions'

Jun 24, 2013

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Last build dated Sat, 24 Jan 2026 01:08:05 GMT was succesfull, I'm sure it'll reappear soon.

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pkg-status.freebsd.org

Also: https://pkg-status.freebsd.org/ You can look this up, but you do need IPv6 to view the individual build logs.

Charlie_ · Mar 30, 2026

This is probably because the build of sysutils/lsof, which filesystems/gvfs depends on, failed.

Espionage724 · Apr 3, 2026

Plain xfce pkg still doesn't appear available right now (installed Mar 30th snapshot)

Charlie_ · Apr 3, 2026

This is to be expected, since sysutils/lsof is corrupted.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=294023

Espionage724 · Thursday at 9:31 AM

Charlie_ said:
This is to be expected, since sysutils/lsof is corrupted.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=294023

Looks like lsof was fixed a little while back; I installed 16.0-CURRENT about an hour ago and Xfce installed and is up fine

Solved Why was xfce pkg not available on CURRENT?

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