<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Thank you Matt. It didn’t work. But I guessed as much that it’s likely master or nothing. Unfortunately that particular computing device lost the video console output (bad trace? Cold solder joint?) so upgrading it is a little “seven minutes of terror.” I’m becoming more okay with the serial console using a Dragonfly guest as practice so maybe that’ll no longer be a concern.<div><div><br></div><div>I recently figured out how to share raw block devices from my host macbook M4 pro laptop to DragonFly guest [1] using qemu-nbd and UTM. So that means that I can at least provision a new image locally using installworld. That might be an easier approach and more “Infrastructure as code”-ish.</div><div><br></div><div>pkg is really nice and cleans up after itself very well. It would be super cool if the buildworld wrote pkg entries for cc80, et al so I could trivially deinstall the compilers et al in a fresh jail instead of playing the “delete large swathes of /usr/lib and see what happens”. That said, I’ve been doing OCI images for years so playing chroot/strip down isn’t really a problem. 😄</div><div><br></div><div>Autumn</div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">[1] <a href="https://gist.github.com/autumnjolitz/b9ba9d98c10ce15e3bd528b399f893e2">https://gist.github.com/autumnjolitz/b9ba9d98c10ce15e3bd528b399f893e2</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 18, 2026, at 6:27 PM, Matthew Dillon <dillon@backplane.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Try setting the compression format to tgz instead. And if that doesn't do the job see if you can use "dsynth" on a very basic set of packages to build a repo. If that works rebuild your packages under dsynth and let dsynth maintain your local repo.<div><br></div><div>I have to admit... I'm not quite sure how well it will work, dsynth in the 6.4 release is pretty old and might not work with "pkg" binaries that are more recent. You might need to move to master. Which should be just as stable as 6.4 btw but definitely a bigger leap.<br><div><br></div><div>-Matt</div></div></div>
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