From owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 15 21:41:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3D3B16A4CE for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 21:41:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from cruzio.com (dsl3-63-249-85-132.cruzio.com [63.249.85.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84C6E43D2F for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 21:41:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brucem@mail.cruzio.com) Received: from mail.cruzio.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cruzio.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i2G7dimG001037 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 23:39:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brucem@mail.cruzio.com) Received: (from brucem@localhost) by mail.cruzio.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i2G7die6001036 for freebsd-small@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 23:39:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brucem) Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 23:39:44 -0800 (PST) From: "Bruce R. Montague" Message-Id: <200403160739.i2G7die6001036@mail.cruzio.com> To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.org Subject: Cross-link to "Nuking parts of the world" X-BeenThere: freebsd-small@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Dedicated and Embedded Systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 05:41:03 -0000 For the -small record, I thought I'd post a link to the following -current post from Colin Percival (he's done a lot of work on binary updates for FreeBSD). It sounds like his "pkg_delete" approach might be of interest to those looking at doing sysgens that subtract out unneeded stuff, I take it he's defining packages for the purpose of deleting things... http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=617762+0+current/freebsd-current - bruce