Re: Optimizing "make release"

Brooks Davis wrote:
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 08:59:44AM +0200, Erik Cederstrand wrote:
Brooks Davis wrote:
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 01:34:34PM +0200, Erik Cederstrand wrote:
>> [...]
If I ignore documentation distfiles (will this affect benchmarks in any way?), AFAICT the only distribution sets I need are base, proflibs, kernels and (maybe) lib32. Is there a way to get "make release" to do just that? I'm open to other suggestions, of course.
To just create a working image you can just do:
make buildworld
make buildkernel
make DESTDIR=/target/directory installworld
make DESTDIR=/target/directory distribution
make DESTDIR=/target/directory installkernel
This doesn't seem to create the distribution sets I want. It just creates the hierarchy of files which are eventually going to be on the hard-disk on the clients. I may be wrong, but it seems that to be able to use sysinstall to install the clients, I need to create distribution sets like the ones supplied here:

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/

Ah, I didn't realized you wanted to do that. If you do want to use sysinstall,
then you do indeed to use make release. The various NO* options documented in
the release(7) manpage and the makefile should be useful here.

Ok, thanks.

That said, I can't imagine why you'd want sysinstall to be involved in
a automated benchmark system.

Incompetence is probably the best answer :-)

Doing what it does using a hand rolled script is way easier then trying work with it.

Ok, so are you suggesting something like this?:

1. make world, distribution, kernel
2. make any necessary changes to config files
3. cram the result onto a custom mfs (or make it available somewhere)
4. boot using the custom mfs as root device
5. point init_path in loader.conf to my own script which:
5a. prepares (bsdlabel, newfs etc.) the hard-disk
5b. mounts the hard-disk and copies the distribution files over
5. reboot
6. install any necessary packages
7. run benchmarks

Erik
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