Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:30:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@world.std.com> To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Old 4.0-R binaries remaining in 4.1.1-S Message-ID: <200010231430.KAA21324@world.std.com>
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>From jeff-ml@mountin.net Mon Oct 23 02:33:56 2000
>Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 01:32:24 -0500
>To: Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@WORLD.STD.COM>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
>From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net>
>Subject: Re: Old 4.0-R binaries remaining in 4.1.1-S
>
>At 11:28 PM 10/22/00 -0400, Kenneth W Cochran wrote:
>>Hello -stable,
>>
>>I've been tracking 4-stable ever since 4.0-RELEASE & I've
>>noticed (after becoming current with RELENG_4 as of
>>2000/10/22) that there are some old things in /usr/bin (&
>>manpages too, I think) that date back to the original
>>installation of 4.0-R.
>>
>>As examples, these are the files in /usr/bin from the original
>>install & which make {build,install}world have not clobbered:
>>
>>-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6557 Mar 20 2000 systags
>>-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 46532 Mar 20 2000 htags
>>-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 25552 Mar 20 2000 gctags
>>-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 30852 Mar 20 2000 gtags
>>-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 35876 Mar 20 2000 global
>>-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10936 Mar 20 2000 btreeop
>>
>>Can these be deleted safely? Source seems to be gone now.
>>How about other old cruft (ie. manpages, other system directories?)
>>Is this a bug, a feature, or maybe even a make-option?
>>
>>Or is this a side-effect of not having originally run a
>>cvsup with a tag of RELENG_4_0_0_RELEASE?
>>
>>What would be a Good Way(tm :) to find & delete this old stuff?
>>
>>Naturally, FAQ & -doc pointers are quite welcome. :)
>
>You should read the cvs-all mail, then you would know that
>contrib/global moved to ports (10/16 by obrien) and the files
>can be removed. UTSL to find out what else or just remove
>files that are not clobbered.
>
>Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net
>Systems/Network Administrator
>FreeBSD - the power to serve
I tried that (cvs-all list) some months ago, but found the
message volume too high for me to track ("signal to noise
ratio"). For this "track" I'm only interested in things that
apply to RELENG_4 & there was a *lot* of other stuff. <sigh...>
Heh, it's bad enough just trying to follow the -stable list nowadays...
-kc
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