How-to: Manually build and update the GUI

[interfaSys]

This is for people maintaining their ports themselves and who wish to be able to manually update the GUI without overwriting anything else.


WARNING: That will only work from 16.1.7 as you need an updated makefile in /usr/core


Get the source code

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# pkg install git gettext-tools
# cd /usr
# rm -rf src ports
# git clone https://github.com/opnsense/ports
# git clone https://github.com/opnsense/core


Updating

Update all ports

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# cd /usr/ports
# git checkout 16.1.8


Use the latest tagged release instead of 16.1.8.
Then update all your ports the way you usually do it. Per example with portmaster it would be

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# portmaster -a

Install the updated OPNsense GUI.

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# cd /usr/core
# git checkout 16.1.8
# make package
# pkg add -f opnsense-16.1.8.txz


Update base and kernel

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# opensense-update -bkr 16.1.8

Reboot

[franco]

Neat, thanks for posting. :)

[franco]

Small correction: installation should be "pkg add -f 16.1.1/All/opnsense-16.1.1.txz"

[interfaSys]

Small correction: installation should be "pkg add -f 16.1.1/All/opnsense-16.1.1.txz"

Thanks, fixed :)

[interfaSys]

Updated the OP since it's now much simpler for people who don't need to create images.