Gentoo FreeBSD/Developers Note

= Developers Note =

Howto to make new stages in catalyst
The latest stage3 equivalent environment is required in order to set the source_subpath of catalyst. Let's ready to update the old stage3.

Sample script is available. and.

Preparation
Extract the old stage3, chrooting, update, and compress with tar.

e.g.) Target version 10.1, amd64 architecture

create_forcestage3.sh
You can get the sample script for easy create forcestage3 tarball.

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/gentoo-bsd.git/plain/scripts/mkstages/create_forcestage3.sh

On completion, it will be displayed FORCESTAGE3. Please set when you run stages_builder.sh.

stages_builder.sh
You can get the sample script for easy create new stages.

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/gentoo-bsd.git/plain/scripts/mkstages/stages_builder.sh