Gentoo FreeBSD/Developers Note

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