Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 15:21:58 -0000 (GMT) From: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> To: Rich Winkel <rich@chumbly.math.missouri.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Staying behind Message-ID: <XFMail.990325152158.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> In-Reply-To: <199903252015.OAA25997@chumbly.math.missouri.edu>
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On 25-Mar-99 Rich Winkel wrote: > I've gone through several major releases of freebsd now, and find > that > I still have a number of files lying around from previous versions. > (like dumplfs, mount_lfs, newlfs in /sbin) > It would be handy if each major release comes with a list of the > files from the previous release which have been phased out. > How do other people deal with this? I just ignore them! But others have suggested the following: --------- On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Ugo Paternostro wrote: > Is there a way to detect obsolete files/shared libs after a make > world other than manually scanning the directories looking for files > that do not match the make world date? There is a very nice script in /usr/src/tools/LibraryReport/LibraryReport.tcl that does this. I do not know if this script is available under -stable, but it is here on -current. ---- I've not tried it, but it makes sense. Patrick --- Patrick S. Gardella Director of Web Development The Creative Group 1-800-804-0783 ext 29 606-858-8029 (fax) http://www.cre8tivegroup.com PGP Key ID 0xEE2D47A9 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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