Nodefactory based on FreeBSD-10

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Scope

• based on FreeBSD-10.1 (until release use 10-STABLE
• ubound replaces bind
• implement latest version of lvrouted (auto update default route)
• update captive portal
• cleanup packages
• possibly replace thttpd (light version of apache?)

A. Setup a FreeBSD host

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Warning: 1) Make sure /usr is at least 5GB in size, as building images requires quite some space. 2) Make sure you install the 32bit i386 release of FreeBSD also when your system does support amd64, as cross compiling can give some nasty surprises. Tip: use a separate hard disk, mounted on /usr/obj to speed up the compilation process.

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Get yourself a fresh i386 freebsd host with ports and subversion installed as follows:

A.1. Run the basic CD installer

The procedure below has been tested with 10.0 (standard developer install - no ports -, e.g. with default partitioning will fit our needs). Installing FreeBSD is outside the scope of this document, take a look into ​the FreeBSD handbook Chapter 2 Installing FreeBSD if you do not know the details. Apply update:

# freebsd-update fetch
# freebsd-update install

Please do mind that all commands below need to be executed as root, because of the many mounts and unmounts done in various phases. It maybe convenient to permit ssh root login (modify /etc/ssh/sshd_config accordingly).

Internet connection is required.

Set correct date/time, e.g: build# ntpdate -s 0.pool.nl.ntp.org

(You may also wish to add ntpd_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf)

A.2 Install Subversion and Ports

Subversion is installed as a package:

# pkg install subversion

Check out a copy of the ports tree.

# svn checkout https://svn0.eu.FreeBSD.org/ports/head /usr/ports

A.3 set some useful variables

Alter the shell configuration file:/root/.cshrc:

# ensure ftp is set to passive mode, to avoid potential firewall issues:
$ echo 'setenv FTP_PASSIVE_MODE YES' >> /root/.cshrc

# set a default password for the images that you will produce
$ echo 'setenv CFG_ROOT_PASSWORD DefaultPassword12!' >> /root/.cshrc
 
# define your nanobsd (svn) working directory:
# NOTE: All commands at later stages will refer to this so you better get it right!
$ echo 'setenv R /root/nanobsd' >> /root/.cshrc

Next load your file (or login again): build# source /root/.cshrc

A.4. install ocaml

Note: Install all packages via ports to prevent issues later on.

build# make -C /usr/ports/devel/subversion install clean BATCH=yes

to compile lvrouted you need ocaml support, without X11, without TOOLBOX:

build# make -C /usr/ports/devel/ocaml-findlib install clean WITHOUT="TOOLBOX X11 TK" BATCH=YES

build# make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg install clean BATCH=yes

build# make -C /usr/ports/dns/bind-tools/ install clean BATCH=yes #(required for nagios-plugins in FreeBSD10)