pkg base

Glen Barber gjb at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jun 14 23:04:45 UTC 2016


On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 03:46:13PM -0700, Pete Wright wrote:
> hi there - i have a question regarding pkg base.
> 
> is it possible to only have "make packages" package specific files rather
> than all 700-odd files that compose the base system? specifically, i'd like
> to only create new kernel packages as I'm helping test the updated i915kms
> stuff.  not having to package the whole base, and download install it on my
> test rig, would be a nice time saver.
> 

Short answer: no.

Longer answer: you can set PKG_VERSION to the last known version your
packages were created.  They *should* obey such changes, however this is
in part why pkgbase is beta for 11.0-RELEASE.

Glen

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