Customising FreeBSD - Was Re: rcs

Julian H. Stacey jhs at berklix.com
Tue Oct 8 16:24:03 UTC 2013


[ My sympathies lean toward those who want to retain RCS, 
but as I dont personaly use it, that's all on that. ] ...


> "screen, zsh, vim-lite, git" why is that so manual for me?  Why can't I 
> just register a package set somewhere so that all I have to type in is 
> "alfred.perlstein.devel" into a box during the installer and I get all 
> my packages by default?

In 1993 I was tired of manually customising generic
FreeBSD to what I needed, so I wrote & still use
	http://berklix.com/~jhs/bin/.csh/customise
After cd /usr/src;make install
I run customise to apply all my outstanding src/ & ports/
patches & ports preferences etc from my public tree.
	http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/
& run src install again & then variations of
	cd /usr/ports ; make BERKLIX_MINIMAL=YES BERKLIX_CLIENT=YES
	make BERKLIX_SERVER=YES BERKLIX_GATE=YES BERKLIX_AMBITIOUS=YES install
I'm doing it on Alpha4 now. (Yup I know 5 is out, but ports/ takes
days to build).

Cheers,
Julian
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Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com
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