In addition to packages that already have it:
- which packages might benefit from the vital flag?
An initial shortlist of candidates:
FreeBSD-caroot (main, not (or not yet) stable/14)
FreeBSD-certctl (stable/14)
FreeBSD-kernel-generic
FreeBSD-kernel-generic-mccam
FreeBSD-kernel-generic-nodebug
FreeBSD-kernel-minimal
FreeBSD-pkgbasify
FreeBSD-pkg-bootstrap
FreeBSD-rescue
FreeBSD-utilities
main branch, unless specified otherwise.
Background
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On 11th May 2025, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
Le 11 mai 2025 17:29:49 GMT+02:00, Mark Millard <[email protected]> a écrit :
In a system/chroot that is based on PkgBase, a "pkg delete -a"
that is allowed to run also destroys the system software, not
just port packages. There is no way to delete just all the
port packages in a PkgBase based system as far as I can tell.
…
no!
there is a vital flag set on some packages that should prevent the bare minimal
to be removed without -f
<https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/2456> (ykla, July)
<https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-pkgbase/2025-August/000760.html>
– pkgbasify base package requirements
<https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-pkg/2025-August/001419.html>
– pkg bootstrap and chroot
<https://reviews.freebsd.org/D51594#1187612>
– I assume that FreeBSD-pkgbasify will be discrete.
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grahamperrin@pkg:~ % pkg query -e '%V=1' %n ; pkg -v ; uname -mvKU
FreeBSD-clibs
FreeBSD-runtime
2.2.2
FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p2 releng/14.3-n271439-5982521fe3dd GENERIC amd64
1403000 1403000
grahamperrin@pkg:~ % pkg iinfo uclcmd
uclcmd-0.2.20211204
grahamperrin@pkg:~ %
