lately, especially man pages around it

but it's still very complex to get=2E even when i have tried to read confi=
gs, manpages, makefiles, handbook etc=2E it feels like something is missing=
=2E it's either in releng private repo or inside someone's brain=2E if in b=
rain, those sometimes sadly expire and take all data with them, so=2E=2E=2E

this comes from someone who installed 4=2E6 at age of 19



On April 15, 2026 1:52:42 PM GMT+03:00, vermaden <vermaden@interia=2Epl> w=
rote:
>> Adding it to your release configuration file has no effect=2E
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>Colin did not wrote WHERE to put it - he just wrote this:
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>> You want WITH_VMIMAGES=3DYES=2E
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>=2E=2E=2E and I had that in release config=2E
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>But contents of 'release=2Econf=2Esample' are useless and misleading=2E
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>% grep -m 1 -B 2 WITH_VMIMAGES /usr/src/release/release=2Econf=2Esample
>## Set to a non-empty value to build virtual machine images as part of th=
e
>## release build=2E
>#WITH_VMIMAGES=3D
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>> Second, `release=2Econf=3Dcustom=2Econf` has no effect either=2E
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>I later moved to this =2E=2E=2E and it failed on build stage everytime in=
 different places:
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># =2E/release=2Esh -c build=2Econf
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>=2E=2E=2E on system with 8 AMD Ryzen CPUs and 28 GB RAM and 200 GB of SSD=
=2E
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>But 'regular' command like that below worked without any problem:
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># make -j 8 buildworld buildkernel
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>But all this is pointless now - I moved on to verimg(8) and I am more the=
n happy with it=2E
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