Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 23:01:56 -0500 From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> To: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> Cc: Olivier Nicole <Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What is proper process for source installs? Message-ID: <4ad871310912082001l38d05e22u4209609fb6c85317@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB33D0D685@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB33D0D678@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <200912090300.nB930sgQ083464@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <4ad871310912081911o6dd6b279k115df7a912d7818b@mail.gmail.com> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB33D0D685@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com>
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On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> wrote= : >> By the way, I beleive a good part of /etc is installed/reinstalled by >> a make installworld and/or mergemaster. > > I should have clarified my scenario better. I am building a BSD image fro= m scratch, as part of an automated process. I am not updating an existing s= ystem. I had been doing this by installing the base collection, plus our cu= stom kernel (as well as man pages and various packages). Now that we are al= so building "world", I don't need to install the base collection from the b= inary release. At least not everything in it. What *do* I need? Obviously e= tc and the copyright notice. Anything else? > > Ah, you _probably_ want to do 'make release' -- I have no experience with this however to be much more help if that _is_ what you need. --=20 Glen Barber
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