Re: changing from pkgbase to regularbase - small addition in step 4)

From: h v <henry.vogt_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:27:30 UTC 
Hello,

Am 20.11.25 um 15:56 schrieb Matthew Seaman:
> On 20/11/2025 12:49, void wrote:
>> What I'm ultimately looking for, is a method of transforming
>> a pkgbase system into a not-pkgbase one, that upgrades
>> in the traditional source-based way.
>
> This is how I would do it:
> ...

if on zroot, you could simply:

1) create a new bootenv e.g bectl create NONPKGBASE

2) mount it e.g. bectl mount NONPKGBASE /mnt

3) pkg -r /mnt delete -f -g 'FreeBSD-*'   # this is  one of the rare 
legitimate use cases for  -f  imho:-)

4) install the base os as usual  e.g 'cd /usr/src ; make install 
DESTDIR=/mnt', afterwards

     'rsync -av /etc/ /mnt/etc/ ' to restore the original /etc

5) activate NONPKGBASE  snd reboot into it.

6) if all went well destroy the original and voilá.


Hope this helps.