pkgbase

When I first learned about pkgbase I immediately had an urge to use this to my advantage and slim down my base system. But I haven't been able to find any clear directions on how to do this. Lets say I have a system running FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE and want to remove certain packages because they...

Hi guys, I am trying to make friend with FreeBSD-base but it looks like it is quite picky and selective... I use this repository as recommended by the Handbook: FreeBSD-base { url = "pkg+https://pkg.freebsd.org/${ABI}/base_release_${VERSION_MINOR}"; mirror_type = "srv"...

I’m running about 20 thin jails, created and managed with a home made script. How does this work in pkgbase world? - Do we have separate pkg databases for the base system and for ports? I.e. can I update the base jail system once and then manage local packages in each jail as I do today? - If...

Hi! I have a system running FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE. The machine was upgraded to 15.0 using traditional freebsd-update procedure and then pkgbasified using pkgbasify and some modifications to the lua script. Now I want to upgrade a number of jails on that machine that are running 14.3-RELEASE-p6...

After I pkgbasified my 15.0-BETA5 system, I checked with freebsd-version -kru and uname -a, they both confirmed that I am running 15.0-RC2: 15.0-RC2 15.0-RC2 15.0-RC2 FreeBSD fbsd-pc 15.0-RC2 FreeBSD 15.0-RC2 releng/15.0-n280961-7bd80d8ee020 GENERIC amd64 I even checked with pkgs' versions...

Hello everyone! After some time around playing with pkgbase, I've found a way for making minimal OCI\Podman\Docker-like chroot environments where theres only an app (could be many of them, though) and its dependencies inside a chroot environment. No need for managing 500+MB bases or having...

It seems that pkg-base will soon be the standard on FreeBSD systems, but there seems to be no documentation concerning jails. So I’ll ask a few questions. How does one create a jail using pkg-base? Do we still fetch the .txz files? How does you update and upgrade a jail? How do you convert a...

I found this on the official 15.0 release notes. This is a nightmare. It seems like, to compete with Linux, the Foundation wants to turn BSD into Linux. I hate the idea of pkgbase being the only way to update FreeBSD. That is the main reason why I fled the Linux world. Furthermore, the KDE...

It is recommended to impose additional restrictions on uninstalling the pkdbase package using pkg. Otherwise, the same mistakes made on Linux will be repeated. Currently, running pkg delete pkg requires the -f flag, and I believe this should apply even more strictly to pkgbase packages...

First question it is about pkgbase with stable branch. Let's imagine this scenario: I download a new stable iso and just after the installation is done, I configure the pkgbase repo and install it before any other system configuration. In this case, can I just delete all pkgsave files? And in...

To anyone who uses pkgbase without installing the full set of packages: what's your preferred subset? Related (comparable): https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/share-your-make-conf-and-src-conf.63544/

I am currently trying to update my source tree to be based on 14.1, current based on 14.0. buildworld and buildkernel completed without errors, but make packages fails. The culprit is release/packages/generate-ucl.lua, which is new in 14.1. Makefile.inc and release/packages/generate-usl.sh are...

Let's assume that PkgBase is the way forward. <{link removed}> and so on. {link removed} In addition to the list, there's sometimes discussion of PkgBase in IRC for FreeBSD. Retrospective (2018–2019) https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/what-is-pkgbase.68325/...

These are the instructions for pkgbase? https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase just relate it to 12.0 releng, instead of head. cd /usr/src make [make flags] buildworld make [make flags] buildkernel make packages /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-base.conf # FreeBSD base system repository...