svn commit: r335963 - in head: etc share/mk tools/build/mk tools/build/options

[Allan Jude]

On 2018-07-04 19:44, Ed Maste wrote:
> On 4 July 2018 at 13:18, Sean Bruno <sbruno at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Author: sbruno
>> Date: Wed Jul  4 17:18:35 2018
>> New Revision: 335963
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/335963
>>
>> Log:
>>   WITHOUT_SERVICESDB:
>>
>>   Add src.conf knob to disable the installation of /var/db/services.db
>>
>>   Default to leaving services.db in place, but allow the removal of the
>>   file and its creation with a src.conf knob.
>>
>>   This file ends up being 2MB in size.  For small systems this is a waste
>>   of space but its a tradeoff.
> 
> I'm happy to have this knob, but we ought to also see if we can reduce
> the size of services.db - it seems quite silly for it to be 2MB.
> 

I have somewhere a revival of bapt@'s old patch to use NetBSD's cdb to
make much smaller .db files.

Here is bapt@'s original work: https://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/cdbrw.diff

-- 
Allan Jude

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