Re: Fresh installations of FreeBSD (was: FreBSD pkgbase MUST be ebandoned)

Vadim Goncharov <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hackers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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. 

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