Re: installing world from src on a pkgbase system

On Thursday, March 26th, 2026 at 3:26 AM, Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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.
> 
i usually make my own changes to base code to test some things and learn a few others,and most of the time the changes i make touch only world and dont touch kernel at all,so i like to avoid unnecessary compilation of the binaries and things i didn't change and doing only make buildworld and not make buildkernel buildworld is part of that reason
> > 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.
>