Re: Fresh installations of FreeBSD (was: FreBSD pkgbase MUST be ebandoned)
Vadim Goncharov <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 9 Feb 2026 23:55:58 +0000 Graham Perrin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/02/2026 20:58, Vadim Goncharov wrote: > > … even in catastrophic event you could recover by just deleting /usr/local > > and /var/db/pkg starting like a "fresh" install. With pkgbase there will be > > *NO* such safe ground. … > > With legacy distribution sets (tar archives): a fresh installation of > FreeBSD is relatively complicated. > > With pkgbase (base packages): a fresh installation is relatively easy. What? What can be more easy than just `tar xzf ...` ? I was setuping fresh jail with just tar (yes, it's described in Handbook), it is supereasy. > This has been discussed elsewhere. Again this shit. -- WBR, @nuclight