Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 20:42:34 -0500 (EST) From: Robert N Watson <rnw@andrew.cmu.edu> To: Studded <Studded@dal.net> Cc: "braukmann@tse-online.de" <braukmann@tse-online.de>, FreeBSD Stable List <FreeBSD-Stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Old stuff in 2.2.5 Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95L.971116203630.3014D-100000@apriori.cc.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199711152158.NAA12930@mail.san.rr.com>
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On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Studded wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 1997 08:02:49 +0100, braukmann@tse-online.de wrote: > > >It should really be possible to explicitly exclude certain 'packages' > >from the 'make install' process. It just might be possible now by > >struggling with the makefiles, but I don't want to modify the delivered > >build-environment only for being able to select which components I > >want. > > I decided to experiment with this, and was able to prevent perl4 > from building during a make world by going into /usr/src/usr.sbin/Makefile > and deleting perl in the SUBDIRS section. I commented on this on another > thread, and a couple people have said that they've taken similar steps > with success. I'm not sure what all is involved with sendmail, but you > might want to give it a go, and tell us how it worked for you. :) I similarly tried this with BIND, as I was playing with the sbind distribution from TIS -- it was somewhat more complicated as BIND has binaries scattered all across the system. A better option might be to use flags in the individual Makefiles of major things (perl, bind, sendmail, etc) to enable/disable their compile.. Or to restructure the entire FreeBSD compile system, but I'm not sure that that is desirable :). > On another note, I'm taking the fact that no one else commented on > things that might need to be upgraded on a 2.2-Stable system (other than > perl and curses) as a good sign. :) I'm still interested in someone > 'splaining what a new curses library would do for me, and how hard it > would be to install if anyone is interested. I think I have perl beaten > into submission. As I mentioned above, the version of BIND in FreeBSD is an issue. Many now recommend running BIND 8.1.1, and I would recommend that similarly. I have remained with 4.9.x as that is what FreeBSD currently distributing, but have plans to transition my servers at some point in the future, as I will be working with the TIS DNSsec sbind8 code shortly. I am hopeful that FreeBSD will move to bind8 soon, but have not been following any discussion of the issue, so really cannot discuss anything about it :). The change in config files there is an important change though, and not something to take lightly. Robert Watson
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