Re: installing world from src on a pkgbase system

polyduekes@proton.me wrote in <yN6SkdEUa-G-hfPE0ha1RAjvUVnZy8-JCy8VkBeqEG9IdQJA3BBdiSV2i-OPnKoNoTuBCyGv80Jy2RulVvzSHg2iageyMo4F01BesHp-vrk=@proton.me>:
> 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.

> what are your thoughts on the real-update-packages target,

targets whose names begin with 'real' are generally intended for
internal use by the build system and aren't supported for users.
you might be able to use it for now, but there's a good chance it
might vanish soon since i'm in the process of rewriting a lot of
the pkgbase build system.

my inclination is that the best way to solve this is by adding new
src.conf options, WITHOUT_{KERNEL,WORLD}_PACKAGES, which could be
used on the make(1) command line to build only some packages. this
would not be particularly difficult to do.  the alternatively would
be something a more flexible option like SKIP_PACKAGES='kernel';
that might be useful if people want to skip more things, like src
or tests.