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

On 9/16/25 16:57, Mark Millard wrote:
> Colin Percival <cperciva_at_tarsnap.com> wrote:
>> I'm planning on adding pkg to the pkgbase repository on disc1 and dvd1.
> 
> So: memstick too?

Yes.  "memstick" contains exactly the same bits as "disc1" -- the only
difference is how it boots.  And for that matter, any modern system should
work just fine with the "disc1" image on a USB disk; we might get rid of
"memstick" in 16 since it's pointless duplication.

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Colin Percival
FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
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