recreate FreeBSD 12 ARM image

[Stefan Parvu]

thanks all for answers. I need to digest these to see what method can I use to make these
happen. 

Somebody mentioned that would be possible to mount the original image and add my packages 
and configurations directly to the image. Is this possible ?

Stefan Parvu
sparvu at kronometrix.org



> On 17 Jul 2019, at 14.47, Daniel Engberg <daniel.engberg.lists at pyret.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> I've been looking at this myself a little bit unfortunately I haven't been able to find such solution yet but this might help you on the way.
> 
> To build the image itself you can use FreeBSD's own infrastructure, I've written a very short tutorial on the Wiki about it which you can find here: https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/Build_image_using_release_building_infrastructure .
> 
> In your case I think the "easiest" solution would be to patch the source tree in chroot and possibly disabling future checkouts later on. This is documented in the man page: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?release(7)
> 
> As far as packages goes it's a bit more tricky, I haven't found a good solution and easy for it yet but you might want to have a look at:
> 
> firstboot_sentinel
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2013-October/045502.html
> https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc.conf
> 
> firstboot-pkgs
> https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/firstboot-pkgs/
> 
> Best regards,
> Daniel