How to customize a release?

[Christian Brueffer]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:01:31PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 03:38:26PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Thursday 02 September 2004 03:21 pm, ctodd at chrismiller.com wrote:
> > > I'm looking for information on how to properly customize a FreeBSD
> > > distribution when using the "make release" framework. Specifically I need
> > > to modify some config files to default to serial console and fast baud
> > > rate, and use a custom kernel configuration (not just hack the GENERIC
> > > conf file).
> > >
> > > The documentation on the FreeBSD site covers how to build a release, but
> > > other than a few hints I'm not finding and references on the correct way
> > > to _customize_ the release. I did find a site that discusses building a
> > > release, mirroring the usr/src tree from that release directory, modifying
> > > the source, then creating a diff patch that's used on a subsequent "make
> > > release". If it works as advertised, this is somewhat helpful other than
> > > waiting an entire day for multiple release builds to finish.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to populate the build area with the source, then apply my
> > > own patches prior to running a full "make release"? I tried "make
> > > release.1" but this totally ignored my CHROOTDIR and tried to create "/R"
> > > in my root partition :-(.
> > >
> > > Also I noted that "make rerelease" updates the source from CVS which is
> > > undesirable in my case since I already have fresh source that was used
> > > to create patches, and if any of those original files changed my patches
> > > could fail. Can CVS updates be turned off for subsequent builds?
> > >
> > > Lastly, KERNCONF seems to have no relevance in "make release". How can I
> > > force a non generic kernel to be used when building the release?
> > 
> > There is a 'KERNELS' variable that is helpful.  Also, look at LOCAL_PATCHES 
> > and LOCAL_SCRIPTS as far as how to patch a release build.  Note that you can 
> > include patches to src/release/Makefile in LOCAL_PATCHES if need be. :)
> > 
> I'd say, please read the release(7) manpage.
> 

The FreeBSD from Scratch article might also be useful for you:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/fbsd-from-scratch/

- Christian

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