Re: installing world from src on a pkgbase system

hi, i asked for a method that allows me to install pkgbase world packages without having to buildkernel and make buildkernel and make packages means building kernel, i am not looking for some sort of hack as well

Thank you
-------- Original Message --------
On Thursday, 03/26/26 at 02:09 vermaden <[email protected]> wrote:
Something like that:

  # cd /usr/src
  # make -j $( nproc ) buildworld buildkernel
  # make packages

This gives You PKGBASE packages here:

  /usr/obj/usr/src/repo/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest

You then create pkg(8) repo there:

  # pkg repo /usr/obj/usr/src/repo/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest
  Creating repository in .: 100%
  Packing files for repository: 100%

Create pkg(8) repo file.

  # cat /etc/pkg/FreeBSD-base.conf
  FreeBSD-base: {
    url: "file:///usr/obj/usr/src/repo/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest",
    enabled: yes
  }

Then create new dir (or mount disks there):

  # mkdir -p /NEW
  /NEW

... and populate that PKGBASE installation using bsdinstall(8) as follows.

  # export BSDINSTALL_CHROOT=/NEW
  # export BSDINSTALL_PKG_REPOS_DIR=/usr/obj/usr/src/repo/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest
  # env TERM=xterm bsdinstall pkgbase

After its finished - you have FreeBSD installed using PKGBASE inside /NEW dir.

The 'env TERM=xterm' part is optional - makes sure you start bsdinstall(8) in colors.

Regards,
vermaden






> Hi there, i have been trying pkgbase for a while but
> there is one specific topic that's still not very clear to
> me is how do i go around only installing world from
> src on a pkgbase system
>
> make packages requires you to do both buildworld and
> buildkernel, it also requires you to setup a local repo
> using nginx (as far as i can read from the handbook)
> >i tried to do just pkg add * from the
> /usr/obj/usr/src/repo/FreeBSD:${ABI}.xxxx/xxxx and
> that obviously messed up my system pretty bad
>
> so i was wondering if there was a way to build
> packages of only base without having buildkernel as
> well and if there was a way to install those packages
> without having to go through setting up a server with
> nginx and as far as i am aware package world target
> is only for release targets and not for me