Re: Plan for "distribution set" deprecation

From: Lexi Winter <ivy_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 21:47:09 UTC
Shawn Webb wrote in <xtkzcgocu5uwhqqghp27k4wjqu3cl24y4n4jcwms43bj6udm5e@wmnwfbucjpod>:
> Thank you for your (and others!) work on this. I'm hoping that this
> bug can be resolved before PKGBASE is enabled by default for release
> generation: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=287877

can you please show the full process you're using to build the release
image, including any make(1) settings (KERNCONF, etc.)?

i am also curious if the patch at https://reviews.freebsd.org/D52638
makes any difference.

> I have confirmed that the pkgbase repo that gets built does indeed
> include the right kernel package. Hence why I'm puzzled why that lua
> assertion is being tripped.

please also show the (names of) the kernel packages you have in your
release repository, i.e. the one in <objdir>/release/pkgbase-repo
which is generated during the release build.