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Date:      Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:42:22 +0100
From:      Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>
To:        drvince@anonymnet.net
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Suggestion
Message-ID:  <20050809124222.GB10734@uk.tiscali.com>
In-Reply-To: <N1-LvD3taArWM@Safe-mail.net>
References:  <N1-LvD3taArWM@Safe-mail.net>

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On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 07:35:18PM -0400, drvince@Safe-mail.net wrote:
> it would be nice to have a distribution for a skinny jail.  It could be a
> kind of "make release TYPE={jail|dvd|cd|floppy} CHROOTDIR=/path/to/jail
> CVSROOT=/usr/src".  Now, solutions for slimming jails are questionnable,
> doing so would standardize it.

As another option, I wrote a program using libarchive which will separate
out the components from a binary release. It has a pattern-matching control
file so you can allocate each input file to an output bin.
http://pobox.com/~b.candler/software/tarsplit/



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