Re: avoiding wayland and pkgbase

On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 16:38:05 +0100
Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org> wrote:

> void:
> > Will we, after pkgbase becomes the default, still be able to build
> > world from downloaded sources?
> 
> building world from source is required to create the pkgbase packages in
> the first place, so yes, but i suspect what you mean is will you be able
> to upgrade the system using installkernel/installworld without having to
> build packages and upgrade using pkg, in which case yes, nothing will
> change about that process in 15.0.

I'm not using PkgBase, so I could be mis-understanding, but if you want
to use pkg to upgrade base in the future (means, switch from src upgrade
to PkgBase, regardless with official repo or local repo), you'll need to
package base to obtain info that pkg wants.

So it would be nice to have a build knob WITH[OUT]_PKGBASE to configure
whether "build -> package -> install via pkg" or "build -> install"
to be done.

I'll use WITHOUT_PKGBASE as I'm using single computer with src upgrades
and SSD for physical drive, thus, packaging everytime is not
preferrable.

-- 
Tomoaki AOKI    <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>