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Date:      Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:25:18 +0100
From:      markzero <mark@darklogik.org>
To:        Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is the server portion of freebsd-update open source?
Message-ID:  <20051028072518.GA82014@logik.internal.network>
In-Reply-To: <4361CD31.1080707@freebsd.org>
References:  <20051027233106.377D070DCE3@mail.npubs.com> <4361CD31.1080707@freebsd.org>

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On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 12:03:13AM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
>=20
> The FreeBSD Update build code is... umm... somewhere in between.  I think
> the best way to explain it is to say that I don't care about copyright on
> the build code, but the code is a stinking pile of hacks upon hacks with
> multiple known bugs -- so I don't particularly want to expose it to public
> scrutiny and I doubt that it will be very useful either.
>=20
> Rewriting the build code is approaching the top of my todo list, but isn't
> there quite yet; in the meantime, if you can send me more details about w=
hat
> you want to do I'll see if I can accommodate you.

Refreshing honesty there Colin, you made my morning!

Just chiming in here, hope you don't mind.

In my case, all I'm after is a way to distribute a custom build of
FreeBSD. When I say custom, I really just mean a standard build with
a custom make.conf:

CPUTYPE?=3Dp3
CFLAGS=3D -O -pipe

NO_RESCUE=3Dtrue
NO_BLUETOOTH=3Dtrue
NO_I4B=3Dtrue
NO_IPFILTER=3Dtrue
NO_KERBEROS=3Dtrue
NO_LPR=3Dtrue
NOGAMES=3Dtrue
NO_BIND=3Dtrue
NO_SENDMAIL=3Dtrue
NO_VINUM=3Dtrue
NOATM=3Dtrue
NOINET6=3Dtrue
NOINFO=3Dtrue
NOSHARE=3Dtrue
PPP_NOSUID=3Dtrue
LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=3Dno

I'd rather not use NFS, for security reasons, so I've had to resort
to ad-hoc shell scripts to do updates. It'd be nice to have something
officially supported to replace them.

My 2.30414 yen.

M

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