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Release 13.2 is out
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.2R/relnotes/

Need to update ISO URL, checksums, some variables, and test before updating live system.

The Subnet-Mask gets set statically to /32, which somehow does not work with re0 interfaces.

I have no explanation why this does not work, but would it be possible to set the correct subnet-mask in the config-file as a work-around?

I attached a screen recording of the first and second boot, in case that helps. Note the add net default: gateway 5.9.57.225 fib 0: Invalid argument after the second boot. That looks like a failure to apply the default route set in /etc/rc.conf.
https://github.com/depenguin-me/depenguin-builder/assets/741249/6b9f4fd9-145a-4de0-85cf-6281083bbc70

FreeBSD14 is released
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/announce/

some late notes here
http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2023-11-21-late-breaking-FreeBSD-14-breakage.html

Some building and testing required

new feature request: include some basic recovery tools in customfiles/depenguin_packages.txt

Perhaps things like:

• https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/diskscrub/
• https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/testdisk/
• https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/diskimage-tools/
• https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/sleuthkit

and one of:

• https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/ddrescue
• https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/dd_rescue

I'm not sure which of the above are really useful for a recovery console?

We could also add a tool to watch a file for changes, one of:

• https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/wait_on
• https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/fswatch-mon

These will inflate the size of the resulting image, but we can increase the limit by adjusting OUTIMAGESIZE="200m" in build.sh.

General Notice

Integrate MFSBSD into the release building tools

From https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCodeIdeas

Mentor: Brad Davis <brd AT freebsd DOT org>
Skills: C (beginner), make (intermediate), shell (intermediate)
Mid-term deliverable: 'make release' will build MFSBSD
Duration: 175 hours
Difficulty: Easy
Expected Outcome: Completed integration so all new releases of FreeBSD will include mfsbsd media 

Description

MFSBSD is a version of FreeBSD designed to run from memory. It is often used as a rescue system, or the basis for automated installers.

It is currently maintained by a FreeBSD developer, Martin Matuška

The issue is that only images for the release versions are usually produced, and MFSBSD tends to get out of sync with the tools in base. There is a desire to have MFSBSD images of the weekly snapshots of -current and -stable that are created by the release engineering time. This requires that the process be automated as an additional target in the makefile in src/release. It would be similar to the process used now to generate VM images. Adding flexibility to the MFSBSD build system to control additional features would be a bonus

Modify build process to build mfsbsd images for 13.1, 13.2, 14.0 automatically.

There is a snapshot created for 14.0, and the link/naming would need to be updated when it's periodically refreshed.

• https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/
• https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/amd64/

Separately, in the run process, add an optional flag to select version, defaulting to 13.2?
(technically this is there already by referencing URL to image)

The default network settings on boot have the following in /etc/rc.conf

ifconfig_DEFAULT="DHCP"

Is this sufficient to get an IPv6 address, or is some other option required?

We are using this shellcheck action with 196 stars as follows

name: Shellcheck

on: [ pull_request ]

jobs:
  shellcheck:
    name: Shellcheck
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
    - name: Run ShellCheck
      uses: ludeeus/action-shellcheck@master
      env:
        SHELLCHECK_OPTS: -e SC1091 -e SC2034 -e SC2154 -e SC3040 -e SC2148
      with:
        scandir: '.'
        additional_files: 'customfiles/sample.depenguin_settings.sh'
        check_together: 'yes'

We are excluding problematic tests, which has criticism.

There is also this other shellcheck action with 1 star, which is used as follows, and may allow passing in the "-x" parameter

name: Shellcheck-other

on: [ pull_request ]

jobs:
  shellcheck:
    name: Shellcheck
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - name: Run ShellCheck
      uses: sudo-bot/action-shellcheck@latest
      with:
        # https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck#how-to-use
        cli-args: "--format=checkstyle --severity=info script.sh"

*edit: fixed for correct link to original shellcheck in use