How to customize a release?

Ruslan Ermilov ru at freebsd.org
Thu Sep 2 13:01:44 PDT 2004


On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 03:38:26PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Thursday 02 September 2004 03:21 pm, ctodd at chrismiller.com wrote:
> > I'm looking for information on how to properly customize a FreeBSD
> > distribution when using the "make release" framework. Specifically I need
> > to modify some config files to default to serial console and fast baud
> > rate, and use a custom kernel configuration (not just hack the GENERIC
> > conf file).
> >
> > The documentation on the FreeBSD site covers how to build a release, but
> > other than a few hints I'm not finding and references on the correct way
> > to _customize_ the release. I did find a site that discusses building a
> > release, mirroring the usr/src tree from that release directory, modifying
> > the source, then creating a diff patch that's used on a subsequent "make
> > release". If it works as advertised, this is somewhat helpful other than
> > waiting an entire day for multiple release builds to finish.
> >
> > Is there a way to populate the build area with the source, then apply my
> > own patches prior to running a full "make release"? I tried "make
> > release.1" but this totally ignored my CHROOTDIR and tried to create "/R"
> > in my root partition :-(.
> >
> > Also I noted that "make rerelease" updates the source from CVS which is
> > undesirable in my case since I already have fresh source that was used
> > to create patches, and if any of those original files changed my patches
> > could fail. Can CVS updates be turned off for subsequent builds?
> >
> > Lastly, KERNCONF seems to have no relevance in "make release". How can I
> > force a non generic kernel to be used when building the release?
> 
> There is a 'KERNELS' variable that is helpful.  Also, look at LOCAL_PATCHES 
> and LOCAL_SCRIPTS as far as how to patch a release build.  Note that you can 
> include patches to src/release/Makefile in LOCAL_PATCHES if need be. :)
> 
I'd say, please read the release(7) manpage.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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