From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 31 14:15:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 6554216A422 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:15:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61D6643D45 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:15:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C38125D62; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:15:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 72146-04; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:15:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-67-226.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.67.226]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBEBD5CE0; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:15:47 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43DF711E.7060906@mac.com> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:15:58 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jose Borquez References: <43DF1F55.8020702@sbcglobal.net> In-Reply-To: <43DF1F55.8020702@sbcglobal.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions group Subject: Re: Question about synchronizing source tree with cvsup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:15:53 -0000 Jose Borquez wrote: > I would like to synchronize a server which I did a minimal install. I > would like to customize the stable-supfile so as not to download > unneeded files. I would like to know what options I need to include > from the following to do a source sync of only the essential files: If you want to rebuild the world, basicly, you shouldn't exclude *anything*. Oh, it's possible that excluding games and setting NO_GAMES in /etc/make.conf would work, but mostly attempting to do so just results in missing dependencies for the base system. If you're targetting very small form-factor machines, say a 128MB compact flash card, you might want to look into NetBSD instead of FreeBSD. -- -Chuck