How to better update a jail host system

[Andrew Hotlab]

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From: "Alexander Leidinger" <Alexander at Leidinger.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 4:46 PM
To: <freebsd-jail at freebsd.org>; "Andrew Hotlab" <andrew.hotlab at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to better update a jail host system

>> > Regarding the distributions which you haven't installed: you can
>> > exclude parts from building/installation. If you have a 7.x system,
>> > you can do "man src.conf" for all the options
>> > (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=src.conf&apropos=0&sektion=0&
>> > manpath=FreeBSD+7.0-RELEASE&format=html). 6.x has similar options, but
>> > IIRC you have to specify them in
>> > make.conf.

I've spent some time on the past days to find how to build a world which 
contains only the "Binary base" and "man" distributions (as I always select 
from the sysinstall menu options during the first server setup), but I 
didn't found any article or man page which helped me.

When I'll upgrade my host system with the make world method, I wish build 
only the FreeBSD components that were installed by the first binary setup. 
Anyone can kindly redirect me to the right place to find how to do it? (if 
you think it makes sense doing such a procedure, of course).


Andrew

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