Re: Building VM-IMAGE(s) from Source

vermaden <[email protected]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:00:45 +0200

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Temat: Re: Building VM-IMAGE(s) from Source
Data: 2026-04-16 12:31
Nadawca: "David Chisnall" <[email protected]>
Adresat: "vermaden" <[email protected]>; 
DW: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>;
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>; 

> The only reason I would ever use the release script is if I wanted
> to have VM images with the same hashes as the public ones.
> Your tool doesn’t do exactly the same thing, so probably won’t
> achieve that.
> 
> (...)
> 
> David

Forgot to address that part ...

I have wrote verimg(8) because I need to build custom images in predictable and flexible way  ... if 'generic' images from FTP would suit me - I would use them and would not write the tool. Its not verimg(8) target to 'clone' the 'release.sh' with hashes or anything. The task of verimg(8) is to provide reliable/easy/fast interface for creating PKGBASE FreeBSD images from pkg(8) repos that are already available - often custom ones - with custom needs.

Hope that help.

Regards,
vermaden