Re: CURRENT: bothering DESTDIR=/ issue after pkg base install

From: Lexi Winter <ivy_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2025 11:53:20 UTC
A FreeBSD User wrote in <20251220220852.721916c7@thor.sb211.local>:
> in a pkg pakcage installation, the way back to install the system via
> 
> make installkernel/make installworld
> 
> after custom builds is polluted by an annoying required DESTDIR=/

you are not supposed to add DESTDIR=/.  as the message says:

ERROR: This target should not be used on a system installed from
packages.

the only reason DESTDIR=/ is suggested as a workaround is for extremely
uncommon edge cases where you can't depkgbasify the system normally.

i see someone else already provided the correct solution here.

(since this is not the first time this has come up, i am going to change
this message to be more forceful, probably along with another change to
make known-safe installkernels not require it.)