docs/50349: make release fails with NO_OPENSSH and ! NOKERBEROS

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 12:56:26AM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 02:48:55PM -0700, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > Synopsis: make release fails with NO_OPENSSH and ! NOKERBEROS
> > 
> > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> > State-Changed-By: ru
> > State-Changed-When: Fri Oct 3 14:47:38 PDT 2003
> > State-Changed-Why: 
> > Sorry, but we don't currently support building releases
> > without the crypto dists.
> 
> As I discovered :)
> 
> 2 things:
> 
> - why not document the NOKERBEROS knob anyway?
> 
Good idea.  Please submit a patch for make.conf(5).  ;)

> - Just out of curiosity's sake, what would be the major obstacle to making this
>   work (a release without crypto dists)? If you don't know it's ok, but if you
>   have some pointers I might convince my boss to let me take another look at
>   this (hmm it just hit me that I could also build a release with the crypto
>   present and then just not install it...)
> 
It can be done, by teaching release/Makefile to build world with NOCRYPT
and a lot of other hacking that will obfuscate it, but I just don't see
much point doing this -- it seems much easier to me to remove the crypto
distribution from the release media.

Mark, what do you think?


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
ru at sunbay.com		Sunbay Software Ltd,
ru at FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer
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