Re: FreeBSD 15.1-RC3 Now Available

From: Sulev-Madis Silber <freebsd-stable-freebsd-org730_at_ketas.si.pri.ee>
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:24:51 UTC

On June 20, 2026 9:12:15 PM GMT+03:00, Harry Schmalzbauer <freebsd@omnilan.de> wrote:
>On 2026-06-20 20:01, Colin Percival wrote:
>...
>>> Why is the release media missing so many FreeBSD-set- packages?
>>> Notably all FreeBSD-set-*-jail packages?
>> Which release media?  We have a different subset on different media.  In
>> particular we don't put the debug packages onto the disc1/memstick images.
>> 
>> It's quite possible that we forgot to add the jail sets into disc1/memstick
>> since those were added fairly late in the pkgbase process...
>
>
>I had a hard time creating my own release media for pkgbase.
>Some tweaks were needed to release/Makefile and release/scripts/pkgbase-stage.lua in order to get a custom KERNCONF defined kernel onto the release.
>But I missed all the -set-*-jail packages.So I simply compared with the content of releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/15.1/FreeBSD-15.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso:
>
>
>usr/freebsd-packages/offline/FreeBSD-set-base-15.1.pkg
>usr/freebsd-packages/offline/FreeBSD-set-devel-15.1.pkg
>usr/freebsd-packages/offline/FreeBSD-set-lib32-15.1.pkg
>usr/freebsd-packages/offline/FreeBSD-set-minimal-15.1.pkg
>usr/freebsd-packages/offline/FreeBSD-set-optional-15.1.pkg
>usr/freebsd-packages/offline/FreeBSD-set-src-15.1.pkg
>usr/freebsd-packages/offline/FreeBSD-set-tests-15.1.pkg
>usr/freebsd-packages/offline/FreeBSD-smbutils-15.1.pkg
>
>
>which is missing those too :-(
>
>Do you intend to keep scripts/pkgbase-stage.lua?
>
>I have many patches in the pipeline needed to allow release customization at all with pkgbase (for example to define a REVISION of 15.1.2 and BRANCH_OVERRIDE=CUST, and custom KERNCONF etc...).
>
>Unfortunately I can't find much time to continue maintaining my (local) enterprise deployment extensions for FreeBSD.
>But I'm happily sharing a diff for some optimization discussions, in case we agree on 'offline' setup is still first-class method these days ;-)
>
>Thanks,
>-harry
>

share them anyway, i'm curious how others make their custom releases...