Solved What's "optional" in System Components during install?

[Espionage724]

On 12/29 16.0-CURRENT memstick snapshot install. I installed once without that checked and didn't seem to have ee, sysrc, and ntpd. Checking optional had all of that fine post-install

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The list:

pkg rquery -r FreeBSD-base %dn FreeBSD-set-optional

Spoiler: pkg rquery

FreeBSD-yp-lib
FreeBSD-yp
FreeBSD-xz-lib
FreeBSD-xz
FreeBSD-telnet
FreeBSD-tcpd
FreeBSD-syscons-data
FreeBSD-ssh
FreeBSD-sound
FreeBSD-smbutils
FreeBSD-set-minimal
FreeBSD-sendmail
FreeBSD-rip
FreeBSD-rdma-lib
FreeBSD-rdma
FreeBSD-rcmds
FreeBSD-quotacheck
FreeBSD-pmc
FreeBSD-pf
FreeBSD-openssl-lib
FreeBSD-openssl
FreeBSD-nvme-tools
FreeBSD-ntp
FreeBSD-nfs
FreeBSD-netmap
FreeBSD-natd
FreeBSD-mlx-tools
FreeBSD-lp
FreeBSD-local-unbound
FreeBSD-libyaml
FreeBSD-libvmmapi
FreeBSD-libvgl
FreeBSD-libucl
FreeBSD-libthread_db
FreeBSD-libsqlite3
FreeBSD-librss
FreeBSD-librpcsec_gss
FreeBSD-libpathconv
FreeBSD-libmilter
FreeBSD-libmagic
FreeBSD-libldns
FreeBSD-libipt
FreeBSD-libexecinfo
FreeBSD-libevent1
FreeBSD-libdwarf
FreeBSD-libcuse
FreeBSD-libcasper
FreeBSD-libbsdstat
FreeBSD-libblocksruntime
FreeBSD-libbegemot
FreeBSD-libarchive
FreeBSD-lib9p
FreeBSD-kerberos-lib
FreeBSD-kerberos-kdc
FreeBSD-kerberos
FreeBSD-jail
FreeBSD-iscsi
FreeBSD-ipfw
FreeBSD-ipf
FreeBSD-inetd
FreeBSD-hostapd
FreeBSD-hast
FreeBSD-gssd
FreeBSD-googletest
FreeBSD-ggate
FreeBSD-games
FreeBSD-ftp
FreeBSD-flua
FreeBSD-fd
FreeBSD-examples
FreeBSD-ee
FreeBSD-dwatch
FreeBSD-dtrace
FreeBSD-dma
FreeBSD-diff3
FreeBSD-cxgbe-tools
FreeBSD-ctl
FreeBSD-csh
FreeBSD-console-tools
FreeBSD-ccdconfig
FreeBSD-bsnmp
FreeBSD-bsdinstall
FreeBSD-bsdconfig
FreeBSD-bluetooth-lib
FreeBSD-bluetooth
FreeBSD-blocklist-lib
FreeBSD-blocklist
FreeBSD-bhyve
FreeBSD-autofs
FreeBSD-audit-lib
FreeBSD-audit
FreeBSD-atf-lib
FreeBSD-atf
FreeBSD-apm
FreeBSD-acpi
FreeBSD-acct

 

[T-Daemon]

On 12/29 16.0-CURRENT memstick snapshot install. I installed once without that checked and didn't seem to have ee, sysrc, and ntpd (reinstalling now with optional checked)

Seems to be a regression, "base" normally includes "devel" and "optional", but since this is CURRENT, with continues source code adding and changes, it wouldn't surprise me if there is a problem in this regard.

I would report on freebsd-current@ mailing list, or wait for the next 16.0-CURRENT snapshot and see if "base" still doesn't install "optional" and report then.

What "optional" 's dependencies are can be viewed with pkg rquery -r FreeBSD-base %dn FreeBSD-set-optional

15.0-RELEASE is unaffected.