On 9/30/25 10:42 AM, Sulev-Madis Silber wrote:
On September 30, 2025 11:03:33 AM GMT+03:00, Johan Hendriks
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 9/29/25 9:51 PM, Colin Percival wrote:
On 9/29/25 11:54, Johan Hendriks wrote:
I just downloaded the FreeBSD-ALPHA4 memstick.img file.
I have a custom install script that worked on ALPHA1.
Nut now it does not work anymore.
I noticed that i missed some files on the memstick image (if i am not mistaken.)
I do this in my script:
echo ""
echo "# Install FreeBSD OS. (base.txz kernel.txz doc.txz)"
echo "# This will take a few minutes."
cd /usr/freebsd-dist
for file in base.txz kernel.txz doc.txz;
do (cat $file | tar --unlink -xpJf - -C ${mount:-/}); done
But it seems there are no files in /usr/freebsd-dist anymore, except a file
called MANIFEST
Am i missing something?
Yes. With the move to pkgbase, the disc1 and memstick images no longer
contain legacy distfiles, only pkgbase repositories.
The legacy distfiles will remain on dvd images for the duration of FreeBSD 15
for the benefit of users (such as yourself!) with scripts which ingest them,
but they will not exist in FreeBSD 16.
That makes perfectly sense. But, (there is always a but...) How can i install
FreeBSD from a script. Is there a simple command i can use like pkg install
base or something
regards,
Johan Hendriks
yes, you do it like
pkg -r "${mount:-/}" install -x '^FreeBSD-set-(base|kernels)-'
note that you actually need to figure out what to install and i don't have
image here to look what repo names it had and so on. and was it configured
if you want to do local or remote pkg installs like this, i hope you verify it
runs, too, first. just like you did with your tar. above was example :) i can
give more of those if absolutely necessary
pkgbase gives you much more direct control, if you for example used to have tar
excludes for x before. and integrity verification should be easier too, but you
have skipped that i see
Sorry to bother you guys again. But if i give the command pkg -r
/tmp/mnt install FreeBSD-set-base I get the following error like it does
not know where to find the packages:
This is on FreeBSD15 ALPHA5
Updating FreeBSD-ports repository catalog...
pkg: No SRV record found for the repo 'FreeBSD-ports'
pkg: An error occurred while fetching package: No error
pkg: packagesite URL erro for pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/.........
.......
Unable to update repository FreeBSD-ports
Same for FreeBSD-port-kmods
What am i missing?
