From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 23 00:15:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B42D16A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 00:15:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpq1.home.nl (smtpq1.home.nl [213.51.128.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ADA343D66 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 00:15:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from [213.51.128.132] (port=58876 helo=smtp1.home.nl) by smtpq1.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BcvQT-0000tq-Go for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 02:15:41 +0200 Received: from cp464173-a.dbsch1.nb.home.nl ([212.204.145.167]:56121 helo=workstation.homenet) by smtp1.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BcvQR-0003TT-Ct for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 02:15:39 +0200 From: Danny Pansters To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 02:15:34 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20040622082339.GB8087@enigma.whacky.net> In-Reply-To: <20040622082339.GB8087@enigma.whacky.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200406230215.34227.danny@ricin.com> X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Subject: Re: "Maintaining your installation" question X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: danny@ricin.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 00:15:42 -0000 On Tuesday 22 June 2004 10:23, Stephan van Beerschoten wrote: > As I realise this is a nice and way too broad subject, I do have a > question regarding the maintenance of -CURRENT systems in particular. > > We see libraries being renewer, bumped up, build and eventually > installed during many -CURRENT buildworlds and installworlds and the > same goes for contributed parts of the base system like gdb (recent > example) and perl and lots lots more. > > Is there a 'best practice' for getting rid of leftover 'old stuff': libs > binaries and files as well as (just for example) any updated perl or any > old doc files? Reinstalling from the latest CURRENT release, then restoring the rest from packages or so. I think that's the best and fastest way to clean up after, say, a year. Unless hardware rot comes to you sooner of course :) Dan