clonos repo has been inaccessible for a long time

[derzahla]

Hi, Ive been using the latest clonos dev image for the past few months and Im enjoying quite a bit, however I havent been able to get a vallid response from the repo for many weeks now. trying to run a 'pkg update' fails with the repo enabled:

# pkg update
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
Updating ClonOS-latest repository catalogue...
pkg: No SRV record found for the repo 'ClonOS-latest'
pkg: An error occured while fetching package
pkg: packagesite URL error for pkg+http://clonos-pkg.convectix.com/FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest/meta.txz -- pkg+:// implies SRV mirror type
repository ClonOS-latest has no meta file, using default settings
pkg: packagesite URL error for pkg+http://clonos-pkg.convectix.com/FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest/packagesite.pkg -- pkg+:// implies SRV mirror type
pkg: packagesite URL error for pkg+http://clonos-pkg.convectix.com/FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest/packagesite.txz -- pkg+:// implies SRV mirror type
Unable to update repository ClonOS-latest
Error updating repositories!

Is it going to be brought back online or is there a replacement? Or I did I somehow break things on my side? I've searched on github, clonos site and all over but do not see any updates posted.

thanks

[olevole]

We are slowly moving to FreeBSD 14.0 ( according to FreeBSD release page the release will be in October) due to important bhyve fixes regarding stability, e.g.:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=271782 https://reviews.freebsd.org/D39620 and other

Next development build will use 'pkg+http://clonos-pkg.convectix.com/FreeBSD:**14:**amd64' ( of course, the base and kernel migrate to 14.0 )

[derzahla]

oh ok, got it. Thanks for the reply. Are changes like this just posted only in the telegram channel? Is there a path to do a binary upgrade to the latest dev build from the 13.2 based image I installed or just am i stuck with the standard FreeBSD "recompile all the things" method? :)

[olevole]

Sorry for the delay. From an old installation, updating is not possible in a simple way ;( One of the new improvements in the upcoming release -- is the ability to update. Starting from the 23.10+ version, ClonOS has been swithed to base-in-pkg method and the project infrastructure supports for updates.