On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 8:25 AM Michael Gmelin <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 16:14:27 +0000
> void <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 03:14:28PM +0000, Minsoo Choo wrote:
> >
> > >Thanks for your effort!
> > >
> > >Since DESTDIR has been around for some time, I think the related
> > >logic was accidentally removed while adopting pkgbase. This won't
> > >take too much effort (just set DESTDIR to / if it is not specified),
> > >and I don't need other information for now.
> >
> > I think I've found the reason for this
> > in https://reviews.freebsd.org/D52879 which I didn't see before.
> >
> > There should be IMO a setting or a sysctl or something like
> > pkgbase.enabled=0 though (my own perspective as a user)
>
> What is the procedure to run a custom kernel with pkgbase? In the
> last couple of years we needed stability patches (pf, zfs, etc.) on
> almost every second release (at least temporarily, until an errata was
> created).
>
> Would we need to run our own pkgbase server in this case or is there
> another (non-hacky) way?
>

There's a make target for building packages for installation via pkg using
the sources under /usr/src. I don't recall what it is offhand, but it
should be documented in /usr/src/<something>

Then you just install the new package for your custom kernel.

-- 
Freddie Cash
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