diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2026-01-2026-03/buildpacks.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2026-01-2026-03/buildpacks.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0cb17f9d10 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2026-01-2026-03/buildpacks.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +=== Containers and FreeBSD: Cloud Native Buildpacks + +Links: + +link:https://buildpacks.io/[Cloud Native Buildpacks (CNBs)] URL: link:https://buildpacks.io/[] + +link:https://github.com/buildpacks/pack[GitHub Buildpacks repository] URL: link:https://github.com/buildpacks/pack[] + +Contact: Robert Gogolok + +link:https://buildpacks.io/[Cloud Native Buildpacks (CNBs)] transform application source code into container images. +Those images can run on any cloud. +With buildpacks, organizations can concentrate the knowledge of container build best practices within a specialized team, instead of having application developers across the organization individually maintain their own Dockerfiles. + +Since the last report in 2025Q1, the project has transitioned from experimental support to official binary availability: + +* Both the primary CLI tool `pack` and the core `lifecycle` component now ship FreeBSD binaries with every new upstream release. +* A new port for the CLI, `sysutils/pack`, has been submitted (link:https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=292952[PR 292952]). + This will allow users to install the tool via `pkg install pack` once committed. +* The official link:https://github.com/buildpacks/samples[buildpacks/samples repository] now includes a Work-In-Progress pull request (link:https://github.com/buildpacks/samples/pull/201[PR #201]) for FreeBSD. + +The next steps focus on lowering the barrier to entry for developers and improving the automation of the FreeBSD build path: + +* Seek a FreeBSD ports commiter to review and land the link:https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=292952[new port sysutils/pack] into the ports tree. +* Address a link:https://github.com/buildpacks/pack/issues/2546[known issue] in `pack builder create` where the tool incorrectly attempts to use non-FreeBSD URLs for certain binary downloads. +* Investigate creating link:https://paketo.io[Paketo-style buildpacks] specifically for FreeBSD. + This would provide 'zero-config' builds for popular languages (e.g., Go) that produce FreeBSD-native binaries within containers.