[2024] Tooling Around With FreeBSD - A tale of scripting a custom firewall distribution - Franco ...

Since OPNsense started in 2015 a lot of work went into open and simple build tooling covering topics such as custom packaging, pkg support, source and ports tree management, signature verification and much more. This talk details some of the problems encountered, solutions implemented, how the build tooling evolved over the years and which importance the resulting fast release engineering responses have nowadays for improving overall distribution quality further.