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DevelopersBootStrapAndDevIsoHow to build pfSense from scratch
NOTE: This is featured for your luxury only. No support is available on this process officially.
These instructions have recently changed (11/15)! Please redo your environment.
Install FreeBSD 6
We'll let you handle this one. Ensure that you have internet access and that you can ping out.
Prepare the FreeBSD chroot build environment:
export PFSENSEROOT=/usr/jails/pfsense
mkdir -p $PFSENSEROOT
# NOTE - make buildworld takes a _LONG_ time ;-)
# Do this overnight and/or get a FAST machine with very fast disks
# Make sure you have cvsupped the src files for RELENG_6
cd /usr/src/ && make DESTDIR=$PFSENSEROOT buildworld
cd /usr/src/ && make DESTDIR=$PFSENSEROOT installworld distribution
cp /etc/resolv.conf ${PFSENSEROOT}/etc/resolv.conf
mount -t devfs none ${PFSENSEROOT}/dev
# Copy ports tree to chroot dir
cp -R /usr/ports ${PFSENSEROOT}/usrEnter the chroot build environment and install bash (optional):
echo PS1=\'pfSense jail - $PS1\'>> ${PFSENSEROOT}/root/.bashrc
SHELL=/bin/sh chroot $PFSENSEROOT
pkg_add -r bash
exitEnter the FreeBSD chroot build environment and setup a .cvsrc in the ~ (root home dir) and make.conf:
chroot $PFSENSEROOT pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui pkg_add -r rsync pkg_add -r cpdup pkg_add -r cdrtools pkg_add -r pcre pkg_add -r libevent echo SKIP_RSYNC=yes >> /etc/make.conf echo SKIP_CHECKOUT=yes >> /etc/make.conf echo "cvs -q" >~/.cvsrc echo "diff -u" >>~/.cvsrc echo "update -d" >>~/.cvsrc
Prepare and fetch the pfsense builder directory items:
mkdir -p /home/pfsense cd /home/pfsense touch ~/.cvspass cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.freesbie.org:/cvs co -P freesbie2 fetch http://www.pfsense.com/cvs.tgz tar xzvpf cvs.tgz
Checkout pfsense and tools to /home/pfsense by issuing (note the captial S in pfSense):
cd /home/pfsense cvs -d /home/pfsense/cvsroot co tools pfSense pkg_add -r curl cd /home/pfsense/tools/pfPorts/php4-pfsense && make && make install && make clean
N.B.: if you build your packages in another box, instead of downloading them with 'pkg_add -r', please verify that libcurl is built without libidn support! This happens if you build curl on a box where libidn is already installed, it's one of those 'smart' (???) ports which changes its dependencies based on what is already installed on the box it's built. You can verify by issuing the following command: "ldd /usr/local/lib/libcurl.so.3", libidn must not be present. In any case, you can rebuild libcurl with -DWITHOUT_LIBIDN.
Setup skip RSYNC:
echo export SKIP_RSYNC=yes >> /home/pfsense/tools/builder_scripts/pfsense_local.sh echo export SKIP_CHECKOUT=yes >> /home/pfsense/tools/builder_scripts/pfsense_local.sh
Install needed packages for BSD Installer and webConfigurator:
pkg_add -r http://pfsense.iserv.nl/packages/All/bsdinstaller-2.0.2007.0827.tbz pkg_add -r http://pfsense.iserv.nl/packages/All/cpdup-1.05.tbz pkg_add -r http://pfsense.iserv.nl/packages/All/lua-5.0.2_1.tbz pkg_add -r http://pfsense.iserv.nl/packages/All/lighttpd-1.4.9_1.tbz
Exit the build-ready chroot environment, save a copy and re-enter (optional):
exit tar zcf /bigdisk/pfSense-jail.tar.gz $PFSENSEROOT chroot $PFSENSEROOT
Now cd to the builder scripts directory:
cd /home/pfsense/tools/builder_scripts/
To sync with FreeBSD and patch up:
(assumes that /etc/current-supfile exists)
./cvsup_current
Then run (to build a livecd iso):
./build_iso.sh
or (to build a full update version)
./build_updates.sh
or (to build a embedded image)
./build_embedded.sh
Environment variables that can be overridden:
General:
env NO_COMPRESSEDFS=yes
Emebedded:
env MSDOS_CONF=yes
env SECTT=220000
Cutting down more stuff from the freesbie2 build:
cd /usr/local/pfsense-fs && find . -print -depth > /some/file/in/your/home
