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[217.241.250.153]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a640c23a62f3a-b7654fd4e6bsm239182066b.34.2025.11.20.08.27.31 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 20 Nov 2025 08:27:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <06f1226f-f904-4bd8-869c-fb236d7fd73b@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:27:30 +0100 List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird From: h v Subject: Re: changing from pkgbase to regularbase - small addition in step 4) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <3a98225a-0f49-4010-9e6b-8f893a069ba1@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3a98225a-0f49-4010-9e6b-8f893a069ba1@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spamd-Bar: --- X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-3.99 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.99)[-0.994]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.99)[-0.994]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[gmail.com,none]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip6:2a00:1450:4000::/36]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[gmail.com:s=20230601]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; FREEMAIL_FROM(0.00)[gmail.com]; DWL_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[gmail.com:dkim]; TAGGED_FROM(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; FREEMAIL_ENVFROM(0.00)[gmail.com]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[gmail.com:+]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-current@freebsd.org]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-current@freebsd.org]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[2a00:1450:4864:20::52f:from] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4dC3fh0cSyz3W6p Hello, Am 20.11.25 um 15:56 schrieb Matthew Seaman: > On 20/11/2025 12:49, void wrote: >> What I'm ultimately looking for, is a method of transforming >> a pkgbase system into a not-pkgbase one, that upgrades >> in the traditional source-based way. > > This is how I would do it: > ... if on zroot, you could simply: 1) create a new bootenv e.g bectl create NONPKGBASE 2) mount it e.g. bectl mount NONPKGBASE /mnt 3) pkg -r /mnt delete -f -g 'FreeBSD-*'   # this is  one of the rare legitimate use cases for  -f  imho:-) 4) install the base os as usual  e.g 'cd /usr/src ; make install DESTDIR=/mnt', afterwards     'rsync -av /etc/ /mnt/etc/ ' to restore the original /etc 5) activate NONPKGBASE  snd reboot into it. 6) if all went well destroy the original and voilá. Hope this helps.