Re: installing world from src on a pkgbase system

polyduekes@proton.me wrote in <m-cS1PTzow3fGVjDOpYyn6W_o4S1wWeW_rAts1LiWRgqkb4CXug6y8weHusL07G9vt2l5WGX76OF2C-JckHufUvwSqJ4511_3wNZ81QeOz4=@proton.me>:
> is needing to do both buildworld and buildkernel to create a pkg repo
> the intended behaviour or is that planned to change

right now i don't believe there are any plans to change that.  i suppose
it might change in the future.  usually people want to build both the
world and the kernel, so this isn't an oft-requested feature.

could you elaborate on why you want to build world but not kernel?
this would help inform development efforts in that area.

> additionally may i ask why it's recommended to do 'make
> upodate-packages' over 'make packages'

'update-packages' will copy unchanged packages from the previous build
to the current build, which means if only a small number of packages
have changed, the system won't try to update every package.