From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 26 12:42:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B14137B48D for ; Sun, 26 May 2002 12:42:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4QJg2Ng046158; Mon, 27 May 2002 07:42:02 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4QJg18U046157; Mon, 27 May 2002 07:42:01 +1200 (NZST) Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 07:42:00 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Simon Windsor Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New user - Many questions Message-ID: <20020527074200.A46094@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <0205261131090Q.00997@saxon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <0205261131090Q.00997@saxon>; from simon.windsor@btinternet.com on Sun, May 26, 2002 at 11:31:09AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 11:31:09AM +0100, Simon Windsor wrote: > Hi > > I have just moved one of my machines from Debian to FreeBSD (4.5). The reason > for this was the non-appearance of woody. > > I am generally well pleased, but have many questions. It's best to ask these questions separately.. > Here goes .. > > - I use an Athlon architecture, would it make sense to rebuild the base > system and packages for that architecture ? It's not worth the gain. > - What is the best way to do this ? Create /etc/make.conf ? What values > should I use in /etc/make.conf for Athlon architecture ? > > - Is cvsup the best way to maintain the Ports tree ? Yes. [...] > - Why is the base system so big ? I here that perl is being removed, > shouldn't sendmail,bind/named also be removed to packages ? The base system has everything needed for a full *working* system, and only weighs in about 200Mb. How big did you expect it go be? -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- char *p="char *p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message