Re: Why pkg(8) is NOT bootstrapped in PKGBASE install by default?

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From: vermaden <vermaden_at_interia.pl>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 22:26:43 UTC


Temat: Re: Why pkg(8) is NOT bootstrapped in PKGBASE install by default?
Data: 2025-09-17 0:23
Nadawca: "Colin Percival" &lt;cperciva@tarsnap.com>
Adresat: "vermaden" &lt;vermaden@interia.pl>; freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org; freebsd-pkgbase@FreeBSD.org; 

>> On 9/16/25 15:16, vermaden wrote:
>> I just made an 'offline' installation of FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA2 with
these options selected:
>> - Use PKGBASE.
>> - Do 'Offline' install.
>> - Auto ZFS with Partition Scheme: GPT (BIOS+UEFI)
>> - Add '+lib32' to wanted sets.
>> 
>> After reboot I want to see what PKGBASE packages are installed (and
maybe remove some of them) but I am not able to because pkg(8) is not
bootstrapped ... why? This is OFFLINE installation. These are bad defaults.
>> 
>>      root@A2:~ # pkg info
>>      The package management tool is not yet installed on your
system.
>>      Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]:
> 
> I'm planning on adding pkg to the pkgbase repository on disc1 and
dvd1.

Thanks.

> -- 
> Colin Percival
> FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead &amp; EC2 platform maintainer
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