Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 05:48:52 +0100 From: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> To: freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org Subject: vital packages Message-ID: <d696ee37-0b94-4d2e-8f77-b4700adcda49@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7140136F-FD23-47E1-9383-3B7CA25A0922@FreeBSD.org> References: <7C9864FD-BDE8-4527-A6D9-0EC5908D177D@yahoo.com> <7140136F-FD23-47E1-9383-3B7CA25A0922@FreeBSD.org>
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In addition to packages that already have it: - which packages might benefit from the vital flag? An initial shortlist of candidates: FreeBSD-caroot (main, not (or not yet) stable/14) FreeBSD-certctl (stable/14) FreeBSD-kernel-generic FreeBSD-kernel-generic-mccam FreeBSD-kernel-generic-nodebug FreeBSD-kernel-minimal FreeBSD-pkgbasify FreeBSD-pkg-bootstrap FreeBSD-rescue FreeBSD-utilities main branch, unless specified otherwise. Background ========== On 11th May 2025, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > Le 11 mai 2025 17:29:49 GMT+02:00, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> a écrit : >> In a system/chroot that is based on PkgBase, a "pkg delete -a" >> that is allowed to run also destroys the system software, not >> just port packages. There is no way to delete just all the >> port packages in a PkgBase based system as far as I can tell. >> >> … > no! > > there is a vital flag set on some packages that should prevent the bare minimal > to be removed without -f <https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/2456>; (ykla, July) <https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-pkgbase/2025-August/000760.html>; – pkgbasify base package requirements <https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-pkg/2025-August/001419.html>; – pkg bootstrap and chroot <https://reviews.freebsd.org/D51594#1187612>; – I assume that FreeBSD-pkgbasify will be discrete. ---- grahamperrin@pkg:~ % pkg query -e '%V=1' %n ; pkg -v ; uname -mvKU FreeBSD-clibs FreeBSD-runtime 2.2.2 FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p2 releng/14.3-n271439-5982521fe3dd GENERIC amd64 1403000 1403000 grahamperrin@pkg:~ % pkg iinfo uclcmd uclcmd-0.2.20211204 grahamperrin@pkg:~ %help
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