In message <011801bf159c$f80630e0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Patrick Bihan- Faou" writes: > Hi, > > From: Pierre Beyssac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > There are a _lot_ of pitfalls to this kind of approach, as I have > > discovered using Linux Debian. This would probably open a can of > > worms you have no idea of. IMHO, the single biggest mistake in > > Debian is the all-encompassing package system which can make your > > life miserable in no time. > > [...] > > I was not talking about things that constitute the "real" core of the > distribution (kernel, basic libraries etc.). I was more thinking about > "userland" stuff that is included in the distribution but might not be > required by everybody. Sendmail for example is something I don't want since > I user qmail. However I have to remove it by hand... Other examples are bind > or perl. You don't need to install them. Just put these in make.conf. NO_SENDMAIL= true NOPERL= true NOGAMES= true It might be a good idea to support NONAMED, NOUUCP, and NONFS, defines in make.conf. Since some like to use Qmail, Postfix, SSH, and Kerberos V, like BUILD_PORTS='postfix ssh krb5 XFree86' in make.conf would fetch new copies of distfiles (if you don't have them), de-install old versions, build and install the listed ports each time a make world is performed. We could so far as having a INSTALL_SUID_root='su passwd ...', INSTALL_SUID_man='man', INSTALL_SUID_uucp='uuname uustat uux ...' options, just to name three, which would list all of the setuid binaries in FreeBSD. You would remove the ones you don't need from the list when you secure your system. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Sun/DEC Team, UNIX Group Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITSD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Province of BC "e**(i*pi)+1=0" To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: make.conf options (was Re: package-like feature for the base distrib (was Re: FreeSSH))
Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Sat, 16 Oct 1999 06:58:09 -0700
- Re: FreeSSH Patrick Bihan-Faou
- Re: FreeSSH James Howard
- Re: FreeSSH Pierre Beyssac
- Re: package-like feature fo... Patrick Bihan-Faou
- Re: make.conf options (... Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group
- Re: make.conf optio... Patrick Bihan-Faou
- Re: make.conf ... Garrett Wollman
- Re: make.c... Mike Meyer
- Re: FreeSSH Konstantin Chuguev
- Debian (was: FreeSSH) Joost Kooij