Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2025 15:59:20 -0800 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: polyduekes@proton.me, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: changing from pkgbase to regularbase [ /var/cache/pkg/FreeBSD-*.pkg as well? ] Message-ID: <B5163303-09EE-4C2B-87ED-2A2A5AFE4919@yahoo.com>
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Dag-Erling_Smørgrav <des_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote on
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2025 17:12:08 UTC :
> polyduekes@proton.me writes:
> > what is the correct way to depkgbasify?
>
> There is no “correct” way. Here's what I would suggest:
>
> 1. Make sure your system is up-to-date and consistent and you have a
> matching source tree installed:
>
> # pkg upgrade -y
> # pkg install -y FreeBSD-set-src
> # pkg autoremove -y
>
> 2. Make a list of non-pkgbase non-automatic packages:
>
> # pkg query -e '%a == 0 && %o !~ base/*' %n >packages
>
> 3. Delete your installed package database:
>
> # rm /var/db/pkg/local.sqlite
>
> 4. Reinstall non-pkgbase packages:
>
> # pkg install -fy $(cat packages)
>
> This will of course also reinstall all dependencies, but we are
> deliberately only specifying non-automatic packages so the end result
> is the same as what we started out with. If we had made a list of
> _all_ installed packages, we would end up with everything now being
> marked non-automatic, and `pkg autoremove` would no longer work
> properly.
>
> 5. Populate /var/db/etcupdate so it will work when you later upgrade
> from source:
>
> # etcupdate extract
>
> 6. Optional but recommended — disable the pkgbase repository:
>
> # rm /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
>
> (this file will have been created by the installer and should contain
> a single line that enables the FreeBSD-base repository; without it,
> the repository remains defined in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf but disabled)
>
> You can also remove cached information about the repository, which
> you will no longer need:
>
> # rm -rf /var/db/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-base
>
> At this point you can replace /usr/src with a git clone and upgrade as
> usual (`make -C /usr/src -j1.5 world kernel && etcupdate -B`).
>
> There is a shortcut for steps 2-4. I think it is both sufficient and
> safe, but I don't know pkg's internals well enough to say for sure;
> perhaps bapt@ can weight in. First you need to install the sqlite3 cli:
>
> # pkg install -Ay sqlite3
>
> You can then use it to remove information about base packages from the
> package database, leaving the rest intact so you don't have to reinstall
> them:
>
> # sqlite3 /var/db/pkg/local.sqlite \
> "delete from packages where origin like 'base/%';"
>
> If you choose this route you can also drop the autoremove in step 1,
> which I only put in to shorten steps 2 and 4. You still have to perform
> step 5 (and optionally 6).
At some point after one is no longer dependent
on FreeBSD-*.pkg files from pkgbase, one may
want to recover the disk space from any:
/var/cache/pkg/FreeBSD-*.pkg
files.
# ls -l /var/cache/pkg/FreeBSD-*.pkg
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 49 Nov 15 15:48 /var/cache/pkg/FreeBSD-acct-16.snap20251112131218.pkg -> FreeBSD-acct-16.snap20251112131218~d117264470.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 48106 Nov 12 15:39 /var/cache/pkg/FreeBSD-acct-16.snap20251112131218~d117264470.pkg
. . .
(My file ownerships need not match yours.)
# ls -1 /var/cache/pkg/FreeBSD-*.pkg | wc -l
1032
(Not that you would get that specific figure. I
tend to have all the FreeBSD-*.pkg for the
platform installed.)
I'm not sure of what well fits with the above
steps 1..6 for this. Possibly just as a step 7:
# rm -f /var/cache/pkg/FreeBSD-*.pkg
?
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