Question on /etc/make.conf for upgrade to 4.8R
lewiz
purple at lewiz.info
Sun Jul 13 04:36:01 PDT 2003
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 02:52:41AM -0700, Lin Jianfong wrote:
> I'm wondering about this group of options :
>
> # To avoid building various parts of the base system:
> #NO_CVS= true # do not build CVS
> #NO_BIND= true # do not build BIND
> ...
> #NOSHARE= true # do not go into the share subdir
> #NOUUCP= true # do not build uucp related programs
>
> Aren't some of the parts of the base system supposed to be upgraded along,
> such as tcsh, bind, cvs, lpr, etc or are they not really part of the base
> system ? I'm planning to upgrade a 4.7 box to 4.8.
Yes. As I understand it, however, you can still not build some of them,
which would be useful if you're not using that service. For example:
many people won't be using BIND on their box. Some people use bash, or
korn shells and therefore csh/tcsh are redundant.
Hope that helps,
-lewiz.
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