Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:13:36 +0000 (UTC) From: Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: buildworld selectively? Message-ID: <kp550g$u2e$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <kp2isu$qvl$1@ger.gmane.org> <51B4CFCA.3010705@hayers.org> <kp2mc5$10p$1@ger.gmane.org> <44mwqzotyf.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <kp2tes$vvm$1@ger.gmane.org> <20917.9991.514334.851719@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On Sun, 09 Jun 2013 21:08:23 -0400, Robert Huff wrote: > Walter Hurry writes: > >> Fair enough. Point taken, thanks. Nevertheless I see no reason to >> compile stuff I neither want nor need. > > While I endorse the principle ... it can be difficult for the > casual user to know which parts can be removed without blowing up things > they want. > (Been there, had to change the underwear after the new kernel > didn't boot. Booted old kernel, fixed things.) > Wise words. The kernel and world builds/installs went fine, but soon afterwards I noticed a problem with the mail/dcc-dccd port (required, in my case, by SpamAssassin), which would not rebuild, complaining that the base sendmail was not found or too old. Since I use Postfix, I had set WITHOUT_SENDMAIL in /etc/src.conf. I shall remove it and rebuild. C'est la vie!
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