Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:30:24 +0000 From: polyduekes@proton.me To: Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing world from src on a pkgbase system Message-ID: <pcRls0mXL2DAbxhH0bMX_DPGdlHbwm8fNM9fEAJXVBZgoqxfP1mCHAA9wsCDbvl9AeV4_BNhd3UZqCpBtLgMI59ZirMmwsLNsLeVmoVY__0=@proton.me> In-Reply-To: <acRZ6iRoJPgZUFmt@amaryllis.le-fay.org> References: <UGVbTfxFnLh7zkFaMJrCf_Fll6DjeBxw5VK_kc_jdLlOlJPe6QtfNOQm23v-DOSO-DP1YiEcP8APpn9To22Lc64V-oX24Mor7jSE_ZtYmj8=@proton.me> <acRQcjyIZ_Krfyw4@amaryllis.le-fay.org> <m-cS1PTzow3fGVjDOpYyn6W_o4S1wWeW_rAts1LiWRgqkb4CXug6y8weHusL07G9vt2l5WGX76OF2C-JckHufUvwSqJ4511_3wNZ81QeOz4=@proton.me> <acRZ6iRoJPgZUFmt@amaryllis.le-fay.org>
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On Thursday, March 26th, 2026 at 3:26 AM, Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org> wrote: > polyduekes@proton.me wrote in <m-cS1PTzow3fGVjDOpYyn6W_o4S1wWeW_rAts1LiWRgqkb4CXug6y8weHusL07G9vt2l5WGX76OF2C-JckHufUvwSqJ4511_3wNZ81QeOz4=@proton.me>: > > is needing to do both buildworld and buildkernel to create a pkg repo > > the intended behaviour or is that planned to change > > right now i don't believe there are any plans to change that. i suppose > it might change in the future. usually people want to build both the > world and the kernel, so this isn't an oft-requested feature. > > could you elaborate on why you want to build world but not kernel? > this would help inform development efforts in that area. > i usually make my own changes to base code to test some things and learn a few others,and most of the time the changes i make touch only world and dont touch kernel at all,so i like to avoid unnecessary compilation of the binaries and things i didn't change and doing only make buildworld and not make buildkernel buildworld is part of that reason > > additionally may i ask why it's recommended to do 'make > > upodate-packages' over 'make packages' > > 'update-packages' will copy unchanged packages from the previous build > to the current build, which means if only a small number of packages > have changed, the system won't try to update every package. >home | help
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