make release failure on releng/15.0

[Sad Clouds]

Hello, are there currently known issues with "make release" on the
releng/15.0 branch?

$ git clone --branch releng/15.0 --depth 1 https://git.FreeBSD.org/src.git src

$ cd ${FREEBSD_SRC:?}/release && env \
MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=${FREEBSD_OBJ:?} SRCCONF="${BUILD_DIR:?}/src.conf" SYSDIR="${FREEBSD_SRC:?}/sys" \
make TARGET=${MACHINE:?} TARGET_ARCH=${MACHINE_ARCH:?} \
release > ${BUILD_DIR:?}/release.log 2>&1 || echo "ERROR: make failed"

The above make command results in the following failure:

FreeBSD-base repository update completed. 338 packages processed.
All repositories are up to date.
pkg: Setting ABI requires setting OSVERSION, guessing the OSVERSION as: 1500000
/usr/libexec/flua: /home/user/freebsd/src/release/scripts/pkgbase-stage.lua:49: assertion failed!
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'assert'
/home/user/freebsd/src/release/scripts/pkgbase-stage.lua:49: in upvalue 'select_packages'
/home/user/freebsd/src/release/scripts/pkgbase-stage.lua:101: in local 'main'
/home/user/freebsd/src/release/scripts/pkgbase-stage.lua:107: in main chunk
[C]: in ?
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped making "release" in /home/user/freebsd/src/release

[Maku Bex]

Not sure what you are trying to invent with all of that, but is there a reason for not using the `release.sh` script with the companion `release.conf` file? 

[Sad Clouds]

On Wed, 27 May 2026 14:07:21 -0500
Maku Bex <zagaz...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Not sure what you are trying to invent with all of that, but is there a
> reason for not using the `release.sh` script with the companion
> `release.conf` file?

I'm not trying to invent anything. See release(7) man page and section
"EXAMPLES". I'm following the steps documented there, which invoke make
commands directly, instead of release.sh script.

[Sad Clouds]

It looks like there is a known issue:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=294729

However I'm not building a custom kernel, so the issue may have other
root causes, i.e. specific src.conf settings?. The way I build:

BUILD_DIR="/home/user/freebsd"
MACHINE=amd64
MACHINE_ARCH=amd64
FREEBSD_SRC="${BUILD_DIR:?}/src"
FREEBSD_OBJ="${BUILD_DIR:?}/obj"

# Generate src.conf
cat > ${BUILD_DIR:?}/src.conf << 'EOF'
# Enable non-default settings
WITH_BHYVE_SNAPSHOT=yes
WITH_OFED_EXTRA=yes
WITH_REPRODUCIBLE_BUILD=yes
WITH_MALLOC_PRODUCTION=yes

# Disable default settings
WITHOUT_FREEBSD_UPDATE=yes
WITHOUT_LIB32=yes
WITHOUT_TESTS=yes
WITHOUT_TESTS_SUPPORT=yes
EOF

# Build everything

env \
MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=${FREEBSD_OBJ:?} SRCCONF="${BUILD_DIR:?}/src.conf" SYSDIR="${FREEBSD_SRC:?}/sys" \

make -C ${FREEBSD_SRC:?} TARGET=${MACHINE:?} TARGET_ARCH=${MACHINE_ARCH:?} \
-j 12 buildworld buildkernel > ${BUILD_DIR:?}/build.log 2>&1 \
|| echo "ERROR: make failed"

# Create release

env \
MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=${FREEBSD_OBJ:?} SRCCONF="${BUILD_DIR:?}/src.conf" SYSDIR="${FREEBSD_SRC:?}/sys" \

make -C ${FREEBSD_SRC:?}/release TARGET=${MACHINE:?} TARGET_ARCH=${MACHINE_ARCH:?} \