cvs commit: src/release/picobsd/build picobsd

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 03:45:06AM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
...
> Does PicoBSD actually have any life left in it as far as FreeBSD 5.x is
> concerned?  I was under the impression that it was pretty broken.

this was phk assertion. Several people replied with a
totally different view.

There are occasional glitches due to pieces going away from the
base system (perl, libmd, whatnot), changes in the kernel config
options, and of course the usual code bloat that causes many of the
existing configs not fit anymore in 1.44 floppies, but this is all
pretty trivial stuff that can be fixed quickly.

This said, i do believe that the 'picobsd' script (which is just a
cross-release build script) at least should go either in a port,
or in /usr/bin.
Most of the rest of the configs could be moved to a port,
the only difficulty is with kernel config files which need to
track the kernel sources closely.

The advantage of having picobsd and all stripped down variants
of FreeBSD in a port (perhaps with their own category)
is that we would stop privileging one over the other,
and we would also stop endless discussion on whether to
nuke it or not from the base tree. In fact, it could be
useful also in terms of QA because the port build script
would automatically notify of failures and help a quicker
fixing of problems.

	cheers
	luigi