Packmule | Packs software into a FreeBSD live CD

Packmule is a Shell library. Packmule has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

Packmule packs a FreeBSD installation (.iso) image with custom content, making it useful for generating install images with all your normal utilities included. The added packages are installed along with the regular contents of FreeBSD. The generated images have the form *-packed.iso. Installation can proceed as normal with the packed software showing up on the newly installed system alongside the FreeBSD base. Packmule will install packages and custom content described by the config YAML file. This makes describing a packing list very readable and efficient. The default config is the file ./packmule.yml. The config file can be specified with the "-y" argument. There are two major sections of the config, PKGS and CUSTOM. PKGS should simply be a list of package names to be installed with the "pkg" utility. CUSTOM should be a list of key-value pairs for installing software not installable by PKGS. CUSTOM's keys should be a location of a file to install on the computer running packmule. The values should be the location to install the key files at under the installation image. During distribution extraction bsdinstall(8) should show packmule-pkgs.txz alongside the other archives as it extracts the added content. Packmule can also create an unattended installation image from a regular installation image using the INSTALLERCONFIG section of the configuration file. Packmule is written in Perl, and all variables starting with $ in this doc reference the variable names used in the Packmule script. These variables are included to help the reader follow both the script itself and the debugging output if they should choose to read it. The leading $ is kept to differentiate these Perl variables from environment variables.