From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 24 15:20:53 2003 Return-Path: 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 6457637B401 for ; Sat, 24 May 2003 15:20:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out004.verizon.net (out004pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D30C43FA3 for ; Sat, 24 May 2003 15:20:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([129.44.60.214]) by out004.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030524222051.BBWR28930.out004.verizon.net@mac.com>; Sat, 24 May 2003 17:20:51 -0500 Message-ID: <3ECFF044.7020305@mac.com> Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 18:20:52 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom References: <200305241755.11653.tsasser@terra.cl> In-Reply-To: <200305241755.11653.tsasser@terra.cl> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.75.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out004.verizon.net from [129.44.60.214] at Sat, 24 May 2003 17:20:51 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: removing base software X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 22:20:53 -0000 Tom wrote: > how do i remove base system software safely? i did the minimal installation > with man pages ( and no more ). my server does not need sendmail, telnet and > the printing system. since i have read the handbook, i know that these are > not ports and do not fall under the pkg_* utilities. so, how do i remove > them ( or prevent them from getting installed in the first place )? See /etc/defaults/make.conf: # To avoid building various parts of the base system: #NO_CVS= true # do not build CVS #NO_BIND= true # do not build BIND #NO_FORTRAN= true # do not build g77 and related libraries #NO_I4B= true # do not build isdn4bsd package #NO_IPFILTER= true # do not build IP Filter package #NO_LPR= true # do not build lpr and related programs ...which will allow you to build your own version of FreeBSD with only the base components you want, which you can then burn to a CD for use in installations. -- -Chuck