Re: changing from pkgbase to regularbase

On Dec 2, 2025, at 7:27 AM, Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> wrote:
> 
> And with https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/pull/2563 the shortcut for
> step 2-4 will just be 'pkg unregister FreeBSD-\*'

This is much better!

I tried a simpler (& riskier) depkgbasify compared to what DES suggests!

# zfs snapshot zroot/ROOT/default@depkgbasify
# pkg info | awk '{print $1;}'|grep FreeBSD-|xargs pkg list|\
  tar -zcf /tmp/fbsd-pkgs.tgz --fflags --xattrs -I /dev/stdin
# pkg info | awk '{print $1;}'|grep FreeBSD-|xargs pkg delete -y -f
# cd /
# /.zfs/snaphot/depkgbasify/rescue/tar -xpvf /tmp/fbsd-pkgs.tgz

The key idea is to
1. to make sure you have a copy of the statically linked tar (zfs snapshot not really needed)
2. make a tar of everything installed by FreeBSD-* packages
3. forcibly blowing away all the FreeBSD-* installed files (so no /bin, /sbin....)
4. untar from root restoring all permissions, flags etc.

Probably a good idea to delete FreeBSD-src, FreeBSD-src-sys packages before
saving a snapshot since you will want a fresh copy if compiling locally.