docs: installation: downloads: macos: removed missing package link

[eschabell]

• no longer building macos package

Applies to #2390

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Updated macOS installation documentation with revised package repository link.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Updated macOS installation documentation link from a non-existent macOS-specific package path to the root packages repository. This is a straightforward URL correction addressing a broken documentation link.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Summary
Documentation Link Update installation/downloads/macos.md	Modified "Installation packages" hyperlink from https://packages.fluentbit.io/macos/ to https://packages.fluentbit.io/ to resolve broken link reference.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 1 (Trivial) | ⏱️ ~2 minutes

Possibly related issues

• Link to macOS package downloads broken #2390: Directly resolves the broken macOS package documentation link by correcting the URL path to the functional packages repository root.

Suggested reviewers

• patrick-stephens
• cosmo0920

Poem

🐰 A link was broken, oh what a sight,
But this fluffy fixer made it right!
From /macos/ to the root we go,
Documentation now has proper flow! 📦✨

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 2 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Title check	⚠️ Warning	The PR title states 'removed missing package link', but the actual change links 'Installation packages' to the root repository rather than removing the link. The title is misleading about the nature of the change.	Revise the title to accurately reflect the change, such as 'docs: installation: downloads: macos: update package link to repository root' or 'docs: installation: downloads: macos: redirect package link from macOS path to root'.

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Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.

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Actionable comments posted: 1

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Verify each finding against the current code and only fix it if needed.

Inline comments:
In `@installation/downloads/macos.md`:
- Line 7: Update the sentence "Installation packages can be found [in the Fluent
Bit repository](https://packages.fluentbit.io/)." to clearly state that no
official macOS packages are currently published and remove or disable the
misleading repository link; for example replace that line with a neutral
statement indicating macOS packages are not built/published and, if applicable,
point users to source build instructions or Homebrew alternatives. Ensure the
new wording is technical and neutral (no marketing tone) and locate/modify the
exact sentence in macos.md.

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• installation/downloads/macos.md

[eschabell]

@patrick-stephens ready for review!

[patrick-stephens]

We do build them @eschabell, or should do, I think @hiroshi was looking at an issue though for 5.0. The problem is more there is no index so it needs linking directly to the version like we do for Windows (and we update via the update-version.sh script in CI).

[eschabell]

@patrick-stephens this is what we get on that URL for some time:

<Error>
<Code>NoSuchKey</Code>
<Message>The specified key does not exist.</Message>
<Key>macos/</Key>
<RequestId>SZBMDJCAQ4BWF4H4</RequestId>
<HostId>RWmXekqUI66iFq7sCwKIQEddwA9JF753MM2W6eGhCwf4lN/fHT9KIz0yaEN3SRIQN/A3PkAMc9mLvYShDFux8bJLyCSih+3l</HostId>
</Error>

[patrick-stephens]

Yeah I mean you have to go to the specific URL for the package version you want, like we link in Windows docs. There is no index page which is what that error basically says, we used to get one due to the use of nginx I think on the bare metal server

[eschabell]

@patrick-stephens so should I close this PR as rejected / invalid?

[patrick-stephens]

I would update it with the details of how to get the link you want, which should be something like: https://packages.fluentbit.io/macos/fluent-bit-<version>-<arch>.pkg

Where:

• version is the numeric release value, e.g. 3.0.4
• arch is either apple or intel

e.g. https://packages.fluentbit.io/macos/fluent-bit-3.0.4-apple.pkg

The script called by the Fluent Bit release automatically updates the Windows URLs so we can extend it to do the macOS ones as well: https://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit-docs/blob/master/update-release-version-docs.sh

Unfortunately it looks like macOS builds have not been copied for a while: https://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit/actions/runs/23863425387/job/69576187010
Raised fluent/fluent-bit#11658