Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:05:41 -0700 From: "Pat Maddox" <pat@patmaddox.com> To: "Mark Millard" <marklmi@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing world from src on a pkgbase system Message-ID: <0802ab25-0509-44d1-929e-2bb81108fa38@app.fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: <be4dc8f9-84b7-456f-8f64-d09488be3dc6@yahoo.com> 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> <pcRls0mXL2DAbxhH0bMX_DPGdlHbwm8fNM9fEAJXVBZgoqxfP1mCHAA9wsCDbvl9AeV4_BNhd3UZqCpBtLgMI59ZirMmwsLNsLeVmoVY__0=@proton.me> <be4dc8f9-84b7-456f-8f64-d09488be3dc6@yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Mar 26, 2026, at 9:52 AM, Mark Millard wrote: > On 3/26/26 04:30, polyduekes@proton.me wrote: >> 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 > > Are you aware of META_MODE for buildworld and buildkernel (with its use > of filemon.ko)? Its purpose is to keep track of things and so generally > rebuild what is necessary but avoid rebuilding what is not. For example, > back to back rebuilds have the second one not taking very long based on > the lack of changes. How long is "not very long" in your experience? Pathome | help
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