Gentoo FreeBSD/Developers Note

The information in this article is representative of former times and has been archived. It can be used for reference, but is most likely not appropriate for current usage. Generally, archived articles should not be edited.

This article is a guide on how to make new Gentoo FreeBSD stages with 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.

A couple sample scripts are available: create_forcestage3.sh and stages_builder.sh.

Preparation

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

e.g.) Target version 10.2, amd64 architecture

root #

export WORKDIR=/10.2/amd64

root #mkdir -p "${WORKDIR}"

Downloading stage3 tarball and unpack

root #

wget -P /tmp http://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/bsd/freebsd/stages/amd64-fbsd-9.1/stage3-amd64-freebsd-9.1.tar.bz2

root #tar xjpf /tmp/stage3-*.tar.bz2 -C "${WORKDIR}"

Mount main Gentoo repository

root #

mkdir -p "${WORKDIR}"/usr/portage

root #

mount -t nullfs /usr/portage "${WORKDIR}"/usr/portage

Entering the new environment

root #

mount -t devfs devfs "${WORKDIR}"/dev

root #

cp /etc/resolv.conf "${WORKDIR}"/etc/

root #chroot "${WORKDIR}" /bin/bash

Update old stage3

Please see Gentoo FreeBSD/Upgrade Guide if you want to update the manual method.

(chroot) root #

[ -e /etc/make.conf ] && mv /etc/make.conf /etc/portage/make.conf

(chroot) root #

echo "MAKEOPTS=-j5" >> /etc/portage/make.conf

(chroot) root #

echo 'USE="${USE} -fortran -build-kernel"' >> /etc/portage/make.conf

(chroot) root #

wget -P /tmp https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/gentoo-bsd.git/plain/scripts/automatic_updater.sh

(chroot) root #

bash /tmp/automatic_updater.sh 10.2 kernel

(chroot) root #

bash /tmp/automatic_updater.sh 10.2 freebsd_userland

(chroot) root #

emerge -C dev-vcs/git

(chroot) root #

export EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--keep-going=y"

(chroot) root #

REMOVEPERL=1 bash /tmp/automatic_updater.sh 10.2 world

(chroot) root #

unset EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS

(chroot) root #exit

Compress with tar

root #

kill -9 $(ps auxw | grep ebuild-helpers/ecompressdir | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs)

root #

umount "${WORKDIR}"/usr/portage

root #umount "${WORKDIR}"/dev

Note
Please include forcestage3 in the file name. It disables update_seed.

root #

mkdir -p /var/tmp/catalyst/builds/default

root #

cd "${WORKDIR}"

root #tar cjpf /var/tmp/catalyst/builds/default/stage3-amd64-fbsd-10.2-forcestage3.tar.bz2 .

Run stages_builder.sh script

root #wget -P /tmp https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/gentoo-bsd.git/plain/scripts/mkstages/stages_builder.sh

root #

OLDVER=10.2 \
TARGETVER=10.2 \
FORCESTAGE3=stage3-amd64-fbsd-10.2-forcestage3 \
NOOVERLAY=1 \
/tmp/stages_builder.sh &> ~/amd64-fbsd-10.2.log

create_forcestage3.sh

Download the sample script for easy creation of a 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.

amd64-fbsd

root #TARGETVER=10.2 bash create_forcestage3.sh

amd64-fbsd/clang

root #

TARGETVER=10.2 \
OLDSTAGE3=http://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/bsd/freebsd/stages/amd64-fbsd-9.1/clang/stage3-amd64-clangfbsd-9.1.tar.bz2 \
CLANG=1 \
bash create_forcestage3.sh

x86-fbsd

root #

TARGETVER=10.2 \
OLDSTAGE3=http://dev.gentoo.org/~aballier/fbsd9.0/x86/stage3-i686-freebsd-9.0.tar.bz2 \
TARGETARCH=i686 \
bash create_forcestage3.sh

stages_builder.sh

Download a sample script to easily create new stages:

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

amd64-fbsd

root #

OLDVER=10.2 \
TARGETVER=10.2 \
FORCESTAGE3=stage3-amd64-fbsd-10.2-forcestage3 \
NOOVERLAY=1 \
bash /tmp/stages_builder.sh &> ~/amd64-fbsd-10.2.log

amd64-fbsd/clang

root #

OLDVER=10.2 \
TARGETVER=10.2 \
FORCESTAGE3=stage3-amd64-fbsd-10.2-forcestage3-cl \
CLANG=1 \
NOOVERLAY=1 \
bash /tmp/stages_builder.sh &> ~/amd64-fbsd-10.2-clang.log

x86-fbsd

root #

OLDVER=10.2 \
TARGETVER=10.2 \
FORCESTAGE3=stage3-i686-fbsd-10.2-forcestage3 \
NOOVERLAY=1 \
bash /tmp/stages_builder.sh x86 &> ~/x86-fbsd-10.2.log

Run the catalyst manually

Note
Please read this section if you want to make stage files manually.

Sample spec files are available from gentoo-bsd overlay. Please use after replace the contents.

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/gentoo-bsd.git/tree/scripts/mkstages/specs/

root #

catalyst -C target=snapshot version_stamp=20171201

root #

catalyst -f stage1_tmp.spec

root #

catalyst -f stage2_tmp.spec

root #

catalyst -f stage3_tmp.spec

root #

catalyst -f stage1.spec

root #

catalyst -f stage2.spec

root #catalyst -f stage3.spec