Hello,
Am 20.11.25 um 15:56 schrieb Matthew Seaman:
On 20/11/2025 12:49, void wrote:
What I'm ultimately looking for, is a method of transforming
a pkgbase system into a not-pkgbase one, that upgrades
in the traditional source-based way.
This is how I would do it:
...
if on zroot, you could simply:
1) create a new bootenv e.g bectl create NONPKGBASE
2) mount it e.g. bectl mount NONPKGBASE /mnt
3) pkg -r /mnt delete -f -g 'FreeBSD-*' # this is one of the rare
legitimate use cases for -f imho:-)
4) install the base os as usual e.g 'cd /usr/src ; make install
DESTDIR=/mnt', afterwards
'rsync -av /etc/ /mnt/etc/ ' to restore the original /etc
5) activate NONPKGBASE snd reboot into it.
6) if all went well destroy the original and voilá.
Hope this helps.
