Re: How to update local pkgbase reository same as official one

From: Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: How to update local pkgbase reository same as official one
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 22:18:32 +0000

>> > if you find more packages are being updated than you expected, perhaps
>> > check to ensure you have WITH_REPRODUCIBLE_BUILD enabled; without this,
>> > a lot of things can change between builds that cause binary output to
>> > change even though the code hasn't changed.
>> 
>> I build local pkgbase repository on 16-CURRENT amd64 and there is only
>> setting of REPODIR in /etc/src.conf. So WITH_REPRODUCIBLE_BUILD is not
>> enabled. I'll try enabling it next time I update local pkgbase
>> repository.
> 
> if you run main, note that any update to __FreeBSD_version will cause
> every package to be updated, because we encode this value in the ELF
> header of every executable.

It seems files under /usr/obj that were built with previous packages
build need to be kept to update packages incrementally. Since it was
my routine to start packages build with `rm -rf /usr/obj/*`, I needed
to try packages build several times before noticing it.

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Yasuhiro Kimura