Re: Building VM-IMAGE(s) from Source

In reply to: David Chisnall : "Re: Building VM-IMAGE(s) from Source"
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From: vermaden <vermaden_at_interia.pl>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:00:45 UTC


Temat: Re: Building VM-IMAGE(s) from Source
Data: 2026-04-16 12:31
Nadawca: "David Chisnall" <theraven@FreeBSD.org>
Adresat: "vermaden" <vermaden@interia.pl>; 
DW: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org>;
"freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org>;
"freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>; 

> The only reason I would ever use the release script is if I wanted
> to have VM images with the same hashes as the public ones.
> Your tool doesn’t do exactly the same thing, so probably won’t
> achieve that.
> 
> (...)
> 
> David

Forgot to address that part ...

I have wrote verimg(8) because I need to build custom images in predictable and flexible way  ... if 'generic' images from FTP would suit me - I would use them and would not write the tool. Its not verimg(8) target to 'clone' the 'release.sh' with hashes or anything. The task of verimg(8) is to provide reliable/easy/fast interface for creating PKGBASE FreeBSD images from pkg(8) repos that are already available - often custom ones - with custom needs.

Hope that help.

Regards,
vermaden