Re: Is the server portion of freebsd-update open source?

From: markzero (mark_at_darklogik.org)
Date: 10/28/05

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    Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:25:18 +0100
To: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>

    On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 12:03:13AM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
    >
    > The FreeBSD Update build code is... umm... somewhere in between. I think
    > the best way to explain it is to say that I don't care about copyright on
    > the build code, but the code is a stinking pile of hacks upon hacks with
    > multiple known bugs -- so I don't particularly want to expose it to public
    > scrutiny and I doubt that it will be very useful either.
    >
    > Rewriting the build code is approaching the top of my todo list, but isn't
    > there quite yet; in the meantime, if you can send me more details about what
    > you want to do I'll see if I can accommodate you.

    Refreshing honesty there Colin, you made my morning!

    Just chiming in here, hope you don't mind.

    In my case, all I'm after is a way to distribute a custom build of
    FreeBSD. When I say custom, I really just mean a standard build with
    a custom make.conf:

    CPUTYPE?=p3
    CFLAGS= -O -pipe

    NO_RESCUE=true
    NO_BLUETOOTH=true
    NO_I4B=true
    NO_IPFILTER=true
    NO_KERBEROS=true
    NO_LPR=true
    NOGAMES=true
    NO_BIND=true
    NO_SENDMAIL=true
    NO_VINUM=true
    NOATM=true
    NOINET6=true
    NOINFO=true
    NOSHARE=true
    PPP_NOSUID=true
    LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=no

    I'd rather not use NFS, for security reasons, so I've had to resort
    to ad-hoc shell scripts to do updates. It'd be nice to have something
    officially supported to replace them.

    My 2.30414 yen.

    M 

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