Is the server portion of freebsd-update open source?

[markzero]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 12:03:13AM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
> 
> The FreeBSD Update build code is... umm... somewhere in between.  I think
> the best way to explain it is to say that I don't care about copyright on
> the build code, but the code is a stinking pile of hacks upon hacks with
> multiple known bugs -- so I don't particularly want to expose it to public
> scrutiny and I doubt that it will be very useful either.
> 
> Rewriting the build code is approaching the top of my todo list, but isn't
> there quite yet; in the meantime, if you can send me more details about what
> you want to do I'll see if I can accommodate you.

Refreshing honesty there Colin, you made my morning!

Just chiming in here, hope you don't mind.

In my case, all I'm after is a way to distribute a custom build of
FreeBSD. When I say custom, I really just mean a standard build with
a custom make.conf:

CPUTYPE?=p3
CFLAGS= -O -pipe

NO_RESCUE=true
NO_BLUETOOTH=true
NO_I4B=true
NO_IPFILTER=true
NO_KERBEROS=true
NO_LPR=true
NOGAMES=true
NO_BIND=true
NO_SENDMAIL=true
NO_VINUM=true
NOATM=true
NOINET6=true
NOINFO=true
NOSHARE=true
PPP_NOSUID=true
LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=no

I'd rather not use NFS, for security reasons, so I've had to resort
to ad-hoc shell scripts to do updates. It'd be nice to have something
officially supported to replace them.

My 2.30414 yen.

M

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