From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 21 22:30:51 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23CE437B401 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 22:30:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from snoopy.moondog.org (snoopy.moondog.org [208.186.117.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64FA043F13 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 22:30:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from efbsd@moondog.org) Received: from snoopy.moondog.org (lists@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snoopy.moondog.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0M6Ulqg055060 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 22:30:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from efbsd@moondog.org) Received: (from lists@localhost) by snoopy.moondog.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0M6Ul4d055059 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 22:30:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from efbsd@moondog.org) X-Authentication-Warning: snoopy.moondog.org: lists set sender to efbsd@moondog.org using -f Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 22:30:47 -0800 From: Elden Fenison To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.7 -> 5.0 (Removing Perl/UUCP safly?) Message-ID: <20030122063047.GA54995@snoopy.moondog.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3E2CFBBE.9010609@kmjeuro.com> <627219571.20030121210121@dds.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <627219571.20030121210121@dds.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Mailer: Mutt 1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Alex [01/21/2003 21:01]: > > How to safly and completely remove Perl / UUCP and maybe others which > > have been removed from the source tree. UPDATING doesnt mention anything > > about it. I'm no expert... but I just successfully upgraded from 4.7 to 5.0 today. It didn't seem too hard to just look in /sbin /usr/sbin /bin /usr/bin to find things that weren't dated with today's date and delete them. The only stuff that wouldn't have been dated today after a build/install world would have been old leftovers from 4.7. Perhaps that was a bit foolhardy, but so far all is well. > > Furthermore there is need for doing installworld on some boxes far away > > in multi user mode. any chance this works? I did learn one important thing... when the UPDATING doc says to install the new kernel, then RE-boot into single user mode to install world, it means it. Just dropping to single user mode without a reboot was not enough. The installworld refuses to work unless you're actually booted on the new kernel. And I would highly doubt, that after installing the new kernel but having the old world that you could boot into anything BUT single user mode. -- -=Elden=- http://www.moondog.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message