Build Process

The original installation documentation is here. I strongly recommend reading through it in order to understand where the DETER install process is evolving from:

​https://users.emulab.net/trac/emulab/wiki/InstallRoot

Updating the DETER meta packages

Since I have generated these images, I have added a few more packages to the meta package for the deter install and bumped the revision. Once you create a bootstrap user and have the repository cloned onto the image, updating should be painless:

 cd testbed/install/ports                                                                                                    
 sudo make install                                                                                                           
 cd /usr/ports/misc/instant-deter                                                                                            
 sudo make deinstall                                                                                                         
 sudo make reinstall                                                                                                         

Building the testbed software

Create a build user of your choice on boss and users. If you are unfamiliar with FreeBSD, the process for creating users is laid out in the ​FreeBSD handbook.

Login as this user and clone the testbed repository:

su -l <builduser>
git clone tardis.deterlab.net:/var/local/git/testbed

Create the object tree directory.

mkdir ~<builduser>/obj

Now go into the ~<builduser>/obj directory.

../testbed/configure --with-TBDEFS=/home/jjh/testbed/defs-<your defs>

This will create the object tree for the testbed.