From nobody Thu Mar 26 11:30:24 2026 X-Original-To: freebsd-pkgbase@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4fhM5h1jzyz6WpNk; Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:30:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from polyduekes@proton.me) Received: from mail-4319.protonmail.ch (mail-4319.protonmail.ch [185.70.43.19]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "protonmail.com", Issuer "R12" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4fhM5g56hCz3Gk2; Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:30:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from polyduekes@proton.me) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=proton.me; s=protonmail; t=1774524627; x=1774783827; bh=Nd/UvK05L5Y1xVMyQWqyynt1u35+1uNirLu1/1XdaVU=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: Feedback-ID:From:To:Cc:Date:Subject:Reply-To:Feedback-ID: Message-ID:BIMI-Selector; b=eyxssrjxAiWaSvMXV2oGwwUJRCfGM4BvLYL0miNah2fIGVxVtEsBWLAjGuhDQfT2i ikrsWf/FOQEugU4EIkGitSZsoccKZVTC1eikSrzJSfR6GUrZIhTIktHBNhQ2Tb3oSI PNMUVPLjLh3BJi4Q6hFbJUZud04bDSNBL7EGRG/KAv9e0crwVZI3U/MFx/UxwAVgAL M7Jla7vZ1qPEVGQYFAfS6B6xCPs2MZg85eOolhQFmAF6mIs9MFA48p56yo0rUmhrSZ qaHdwLyov8XOBr1y3NUbyYzNCIqUecqlTIVsrO9ijxGVRRWZzt3GOUxEhUh0xCkLp/ jX/gHk2ARSTSA== Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:30:24 +0000 To: Lexi Winter From: polyduekes@proton.me Cc: freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing world from src on a pkgbase system Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Feedback-ID: 94987605:user:proton X-Pm-Message-ID: 0f651df87517d45e9900ea194ab57bc885358dcb List-Id: Packaging the FreeBSD base system List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-pkgbase List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-pkgbase@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Rspamd-Pre-Result: action=no action; module=replies; Message is reply to one we originated X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:62371, ipnet:185.70.43.0/24, country:CH] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4fhM5g56hCz3Gk2 X-Spamd-Bar: ---- On Thursday, March 26th, 2026 at 3:26 AM, Lexi Winter wro= te: > polyduekes@proton.me wrote in : > > is needing to do both buildworld and buildkernel to create a pkg repo > > the intended behaviour or is that planned to change >=20 > 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. >=20 > could you elaborate on why you want to build world but not kernel? > this would help inform development efforts in that area. >=20 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 don= t touch kernel at all,so i like to avoid unnecessary compilation of the bin= aries and things i didn't change and doing only make buildworld and not mak= e buildkernel buildworld is part of that reason > > additionally may i ask why it's recommended to do 'make > > upodate-packages' over 'make packages' >=20 > '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. >