From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 23 15:17:26 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DFCA37B401 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 15:17:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from rush.telenordia.se (mail.telenordia.se [194.213.64.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 17AB043EB2 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 15:17:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fuc952d@tninet.se) Received: (qmail 28423 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2003 00:17:20 +0100 Received: from bb-62-5-66-76.bb.tninet.se (62.5.66.76) by mail.telenordia.se with SMTP; 24 Jan 2003 00:17:20 +0100 From: Mark Rowlands Reply-To: fuc952d@tninet.se To: Jens Haeusser Subject: Re: Installing Stripped System Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 00:17:19 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200301240017.19977.fuc952d@tninet.se> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 23 January 2003 10:10 pm, Jens Haeusser wrote: > > I've always thought that the entire base system should have it's own > package/port system. That way, you could easily remove the bits you don't > want (remove UUCP from a fileserver, remove gcc from a firewall, etc). As > well, this would make security/other upgrades much easier. Telnet has a > remote hole? Simply upgrade the base-telnet port. OpenSSL has a problem? > Upgrade the base-OpenSSL port, which will take care of rebuilding any other > dependant base-ports. This should also make binary upgrades easier if it > included proper packages. It could certainly simplify the whole track the > security branch, spend hours making install/buildworld every few weeks > issue. > > Ah well, I can always dream. > nope..... you can get coding....... ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message