I'm not going to dig through all that and figure out what's wrong,
you are obviously not following release(8) but have added a bunch
of your own stuff and something is broken as a result.
Your /mnt partition for building the ramdisks is not working.
Why? I don't know. I've built probably 200,000 releases using
this procedure, but I don't have your tweaks.
Raymundo Soto <abuhuss...@mailbox.org> wrote:
> Either I somehow managed to erase key parts of my previous e-mail, or they
> were automatically erased by the system because they contained verbatim
> commands.
>
> Anyway,
>
> It looks like you skipped mandatory steps in the release(8) manual page.
>
>
> Of course it might look that way, I just don't know what minuscule detail I
> missed. Here is what I did in all detail:
>
> First of all, of course, follow the instructions to build the stable kernel,
> reboot, then build the userland, sysmerge, MAKEDEV ALL (then reboot again
> just in case), which means that I have a complete build in /usr/obj.
>
> Then, AFAICT, follow release(8) verbatim:
>
> Literally add this line to my fstab to mount the noperm fs as mfs:
>
> swap /dest mfs rw,nosuid,noperm,-P/var/dest,-s1.5G,noauto 0 0
>
> then using doas to have root privileges,
>
> mkdir -p /var/dest/{,x}base
> chown -R build /var/dest
> chmod -R 700 /var/dest
> mount /dest
>
> This is my doas.conf:
>
> permit setenv { DESTDIR=/dest/base
> RELEASEDIR=/home/admin/release/releasedir } admin
>
> Finally, cd /usr/src/etc && doas make release
>
> throws me the error I was talking about.
