Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:00:29 +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: <yN6SkdEUa-G-hfPE0ha1RAjvUVnZy8-JCy8VkBeqEG9IdQJA3BBdiSV2i-OPnKoNoTuBCyGv80Jy2RulVvzSHg2iageyMo4F01BesHp-vrk=@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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Sent with Proton Mail secure email. 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 what are your thoughts on the real-update-packages target,it looks it was created for exactly my usecase(b44147bb12450bdf851a519d1cdc85402f89ed1f) although it seems it has been broken for a while(e4988ba172a84b35abab8ce065f2210dab70f148) > 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. > > > 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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