Re: CURRENT: bothering DESTDIR=/ issue after pkg base install
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Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2025 11:51:05 UTC
A FreeBSD User <freebsd@walstatt-de.de> writes: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > You have converted your system to pkgbase and want to switch back to > > updating from source. > No, I had no chance to rescue a wrecked system other than using the > latest USB Flash snapshot CURRENT image, which doesn't contain an > offline working legacy install package. Right, so you converted your system to pkgbase and want to revert to updating from source. > > Remember to run `make delete-old` after `make installworld` to remove > > files that were installed by pkgbase but are excluded from your build. > Done. It is slightly disturbing, because there is something to delete like > "/usr/sbin/cd|alias" which I consider as Shell commands ... ;-) We were previously required by POSIX to provide binaries for them, even though most of them cannot work except as a shell builtin. POSIX.1-2024 redesignated them as “intrinsic utilities” and dropped the requirement, so I deleted them. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@FreeBSD.org