freebsd stable - Jan 2013 - make release doesn't correctly include EXTLOCALDIR ?

On Jan 11, 2013, at 2:06 PM, Fleuriot Damien <ml at my.gd> wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> 
> I'm running 8.3-stable r245223 from a mere 2 days ago and am in the
process of building a custom release for our internal use as preconfigured
firewalls.
> 
> "make release" works pretty fine except for a few quirks here and
there.
> 
> 
> 
> First of all, I have set EXTLOCALDIR so that the release contains my
existing /usr/local/ , and thus the collection of installed ports.
> 
> The problem here is that while /release/usr/local/ is correctly populated,
the ISO images and ftp install directory have an empty usr/local/
> Extracting the ISO's base.?? files doesn't yield the /usr/local/
contents either.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The second problem I encounter is with the kernel's build.
> Apparently "make release" doesn't pull MODULES_OVERRIDE from
/etc/make.conf and decides to build every single module, as opposed to my own
restricted list.
> 
> I'm going to try with with KERNEL_FLAGS=-DMODULES_OVERRIDE module1
module2 in /usr/src/release/Makefile
> 
> 
> 
> Has anyone else ever experienced the same problem regarding the inclusion
of /usr/local/ in their release ?
> 

Reposting to -stable in the hope of getting feedback, having received none on
-questions.


Has anyone experienced this before ?
Is this intended behaviour ?

I fail to see the purpose of including /usr/local/ if it won't be packaged
into the release images.