Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 18:13:08 -0700 From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: "Andrew R. Reiter" <arr@watson.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: old man pages Message-ID: <20010417011308.74F3C3E09@bazooka.unixfreak.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010416171742.72206A-100000@fledge.watson.org>; from arr@watson.org on "Mon, 16 Apr 2001 17:24:55 -0400 (EDT)"
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"Andrew R. Reiter" <arr@watson.org> writes: > Something I don't know, but might assist in me writing a tool for this > would be to know if there is an output file that says what files were > installed during an installworld? If there is one, I sould say it would There isn't one per se, but I guess it'd be rather simple to derive something like this from the output of `make installworld`. > be easy to write a shellscript quickly for doing post-installworld > deleting of unknown/old files from selected directories... Then you may end up removing too much. Like it or not, there are many files in /usr (e.g., /usr/bin, etc.), below /usr/local, that are not vendor-distributed. People put all kinds of stuff there. It's not safe to just go through and delete anything that wasn't installed by installworld. Dima Dorfman dima@unixfreak.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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