From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 10 14:14:12 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D0766C9 for ; Fri, 10 May 2013 14:14:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vrwmiller@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ie0-x229.google.com (mail-ie0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4255AC2E for ; Fri, 10 May 2013 14:14:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f169.google.com with SMTP id u16so8058842iet.14 for ; Fri, 10 May 2013 07:14:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=hD5uA4O2LSGitrXnKCU50WQkjWX7iydAfKtl7Qcu/XQ=; b=dTv0ty0olc13z3dvXMgpJmVKsjS429LKz3+vFyeLNXSsCKwxdZijq0y/XMVuWxThJ+ S1Q78TusBMcrrnKKmJbUtf/QGh3evV2H7834GDYHq0Rgmvy8COQFTKWyLnVm9G44ZEdY xZr9wJUkoSNsK80QPARXsa/opDKrz4kIAYtYwF4jiOgsdlW78Ml5Ou6HKTziBt4QGVWY 6aa2Ea00iZO1HCbggfyFGg3DwqFkvU6xdjNdQYSJF/6MEbO4dyjALDJs/B3VRLDbhjO7 A/usbWF0GMpHb7KKM4CI+vjKuTzX4im2G3uPRtOzy59/Uh75mTa/53+dLOU/60/CjZRc 4c0g== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.147.71 with SMTP id ti7mr2158717igb.49.1368195251950; Fri, 10 May 2013 07:14:11 -0700 (PDT) Sender: vrwmiller@gmail.com Received: by 10.64.25.66 with HTTP; Fri, 10 May 2013 07:14:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 10:14:11 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 1goH99YnRCmI7pKgDW_L5McfUxI Message-ID: Subject: Re: Generating ISO With Pre-Installed Packages From: Rick Miller To: Shawn Webb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 14:14:12 -0000 On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Shawn Webb wrote: > Hey All, > > I'm looking to generate a FreeBSD 9-stable (and maybe 10-current) ISO that > has certain packages pre-installed. I'd like to create my own installation > media that will have certain things installed, like a web management UI > that I'm actively working on. It'd be like what pfSense does. > > I did do a little googling and found pfSense's build documentation for > spinning a custom build of pfSense. I'll be spending the weekend looking > over their work. But in the meantime, does anyone know of the steps > involved in such a process? Is the process documented somewhere? You're looking for package-split.py, a python script that generates packages. The blog post below may be of some use. It explains modifying the script and generating a release. http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2012/10/08/building-freebsd-media-with-custom-packages/ -- Take care Rick Miller