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Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 13:22:35 +0000
From: Alistair Sutton <alistair.sutton@gmail.com>
To: Richard Jones <richard@jonze.com>
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Subject: Re: Files left over from a installworld
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On 09/11/05, Richard Jones <richard@jonze.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been continuously upgrading my machine from (I think) RELEASE-4.8,
> and I'm beginning to see lots of cruft from older releases accumulating.
> What are the list's feelings on deleting the majority of files listed
> by:
>
> find / /usr -xdev -mtime +7
>
> There are plenty there that I created or belong the packages e.g.
> /etc/mail/$HOSTNAME.mc and /etc/X11/XFConfig
>
> but what about, for example:
>
> /etc/netconfig
> /etc/pam.d/ftpd
> /etc/periodic/daily/100.clean-disks
> /etc/amd.map
> /sbin/ip6fw
> /sbin/ilmid
> /lib/libdevstat.so.4
> /lib/libutil.so.4
> /rescue/ipmon
>
> Obviously dollops of common sense are needed, but has anyone attempted
> to formalize this type spring cleaning?

There is something that was committed to -CURRENT a month or so ago
that will delete out-of-date files but I can't remember what the name
of it is.

I'm sure it'll get MFCed from -CURRENT at some point once it becomes
more stable.

Al
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