diff --git a/release/packages/create-sets.sh b/release/packages/create-sets.sh
index 8c564ecfeb92..09567657c161 100755
--- a/release/packages/create-sets.sh
+++ b/release/packages/create-sets.sh
@@ -1,47 +1,51 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 
 # Generate metapackage sets.  We do this by examining the annotations field
 # of the packages we previously built.
 
 set -e
 
 if [ $# -lt 3 ]; then
 	printf >&2 'usage: %s <srcdir> <wstagedir> <repodir>\n' "$0"
 	exit 1
 fi
 
 srcdir="$1"; shift
 wstagedir="$1"; shift
 repodir="$1"; shift
 # Everything after the first three arguments is UCL variables we pass to
 # generate-set-ucl.lua.
 UCL_VARS="$@"
 
+# Nothing is explicitly added to set-base, so it wouldn't get built unless
+# we list it here.
+SETS="base base-dbg base-jail base-jail-dbg"
+
 for pkg in "$repodir"/*.pkg; do
 	# If the package name doesn't containing a '-', then it's
 	# probably data.pkg or packagesite.pkg, which are not real
 	# packages.
 	{ echo "$pkg" | grep -q '-'; } || continue
 
 	set -- $(pkg query -F "$pkg" '%At %n %Av' | grep '^set ')
 	pkgname="$2"
 	sets="$(echo "$3" | tr , ' ')"
 	for set in $sets; do
 		SETS="$SETS $set"
 		setvar="$(echo "$set" | tr - _)"
 		eval PKGS_${setvar}=\"\$PKGS_${setvar} $pkgname\"
 	done
 done
 
 for set in $(echo $SETS | tr ' ' '\n' | sort | uniq); do
 	setvar="$(echo "$set" | tr - _)"
 	eval deps=\"\$PKGS_${setvar}\"
 
 	"${srcdir}/release/packages/generate-set-ucl.lua" \
 		"${srcdir}/release/packages/set-template.ucl" \
 		PKGNAME "$set" \
 		SET_DEPENDS "$deps" \
 		UCLFILES "${srcdir}/release/packages/sets" \
 		$UCL_VARS \
 		> "${wstagedir}/set-${set}.ucl"
 done