How to Build pfSense 2.3?

[chrcoluk]

I followed the detailed post above, its on the right path but the build script is clearly designed with obstacles.

So if rename to pfSense it blocks the build.

So then try to rename appropriate files from pfSense to nonSense since they dont distribute with that name

in addition it tries to fetch packages from dead netgate url's.

The showstopper is when renaming the 3 files in here to nonSense

pfsense # ls /root/work/pfsense/pfsense/tmp/FreeBSD-src/release/conf/
pfSense_make.conf          ufw_installer_make.conf    ufw_recover_make.conf
pfSense_src-env.conf      ufw_installer_src-env.conf ufw_recover_src-env.conf
pfSense_src.conf          ufw_installer_src.conf    ufw_recover_src.conf

Then running build.sh again, the build script itself renames them back to pfSense and then complains it cannot find the nonSense files, so its sabotaging itself.

I blocked the script doing the sabotage by making the filles immune (root cannot even write/delete)

chflags schg nonSense_*

But now hitting repo clone errors.

Since I only need to compile a custom kernel I might just try to compile the kernel in the traditional FreeBSD way, as I am only oing this to get a patched kernel to fix a nasty panic bug.