Building an /etc from scratch...

[Chuck Swiger]

On Mar 30, 2007, at 3:45 PM, John Clark wrote:
> The doc for building the world indicate that the kernel and /etc  
> are not build in the 'world'
> process.
>
> How does one create an /etc from src/etc. There does not seem to be  
> a make target in
> the main Makefile at the top of the hierarchy.

You might find mergemaster helpful, or similar tools in ports  
(sysutils/etcmerge?).  You might also take a look at the "make  
release" manpage, which discusses additional targets used to create a  
fully-populated system under a filesystem location suitable for  
turning into an ISO image.

-- 
-Chuck