Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 12:55:07 -0400 From: Michael Graziano <michael.graziano@premierheart.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Newbie "make release" question - Rolling a customized release Message-ID: <0FD15F74-2116-4881-9766-C8FCDA4BFA84@premierheart.com>
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Hey all, I'm trying to eliminate a headache and I'm hoping you guys
can aim me in the right direction -
I'm trying to roll a custom FreeBSD release - nothing fancy, just a
stock 7-STABLE plus a few ports & some stuff under /usr/local - and
I'm a bit confused as to the best way to go about building the release
distributions/CDs with my custom changes.
I *think* what I would like to do is customize the universe that gets
built under the chroot directory and roll a release from that, but I'm
not sure how I go about getting make release (or the mk script?) to
pick up my changes when it re-rolls the base tarball.
I thought this would be as simple as making my changes inside the
chroot, deleting {chroot}/usr/obj/usr/src/release/release.[2-8] and
running the mk script from inside the chroot, but my results were less
than spectacular (the mk script blew up :)
Any pointers would be much appreciated - I'd love to get away from my
12-year-old collection of builder shell scripts and not have to baby-
sit complies/package installations anymore. Collected pointers and
(hopefully) successful results to be turned into a howto for future
clueless dingbats like myself if such a thing doesn't already exist :)
Thanks,
-MG
(PS - I know I can do what I want by rolling a local package with my
changes, but I was hoping for a trained-monkey fire and forget kind of
installation :)
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