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  • Re: FreeBSD 15.1-BETA3 Now Available

    From vermaden@vermaden@interia.pl to muc.lists.freebsd.stable on Sun May 17 00:41:48 2026
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    The third beta build of the 15.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available.

    Hi.

    Thank You for the message Colin.

    One part was interesting for me:

    o Scripted bsdinstall installations now use pkgbase.

    Where is the documentation for that?

    How to exactly use that?

    Thanks,
    vermaden


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  • From Alan Somers@asomers@freebsd.org to muc.lists.freebsd.stable on Sat May 16 16:49:51 2026
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    I made that change, vermaden. The documentation is in the
    bsdinstall(8) man page. The short version is:
    Download the official iso. Untar it. Put your custom script in /etc/installerconfig. Then recreate the iso. If the script sets a
    variable named DISTRIBUTIONS, then the iso will automatically do a
    distset install. If the script does not set such a variable, then the
    iso will automatically do a pkgbase install. See bsdinstall(8) for
    details.
    -Alan
    On Sat, May 16, 2026 at 4:42rC>PM vermaden <vermaden@interia.pl> wrote:

    The third beta build of the 15.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available.

    Hi.

    Thank You for the message Colin.

    One part was interesting for me:

    o Scripted bsdinstall installations now use pkgbase.

    Where is the documentation for that?

    How to exactly use that?

    Thanks,
    vermaden

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  • From Colin Percival@cperciva@tarsnap.com to muc.lists.freebsd.stable on Sat May 16 22:52:45 2026
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    On 5/16/26 15:41, vermaden wrote:
    o Scripted bsdinstall installations now use pkgbase.

    Where is the documentation for that?

    How to exactly use that?

    commit cb7880bb09009c977d3fb70a66b0f57f9fbe83ed
    Author: Alan Somers <asomers@FreeBSD.org>
    Date: Tue Apr 28 11:27:17 2026 -0600

    bsdinstall: do pkgbase installations with the "script" command

    "bsdinstall script" will now do a pkgbase installation by default. The
    system components to install can be specified in the COMPONENTS
    variable, and have the same names as those used in the interactive
    installer. bsdinstall will still do a legacy distset installation if
    DISTRIBUTIONS is defined in the installerconfig file.

    Approved by: re (cperciva)
    PR: 290375
    Sponsored by: ConnectWise
    Reviewed by: ziaee, ivy, jduran
    Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56717
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    Colin Percival
    FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
    Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid



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