Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 09:19:03 -0800
From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>
Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: installworld and stale {include,lib} fun
Message-ID: <20021123171903.GA22518@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200211231036.gANAaGaq028385@grimreaper.grondar.org>
References: <20021123040317.GA4320@gothmog.gr> <200211231036.gANAaGaq028385@grimreaper.grondar.org>
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On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 10:36:16AM +0000, Mark Murray wrote: > > Apparently editors/vim-lite had picked up an old, obsolete libposix*.so > > from one of the past installations and linked against that. Deleting > > the port and reinstalling it worked like a charm, which made me think > > a bit... Should we recommend in UPDATING that source upgrades include > > something similar? Well, maybe not all the time (since ports can > > break like vim did for me), but at least under a "making your /usr as > > clean as possible" paragraph? > > I would support this, as long as it was not compulsory. > As demonstrated, you probably don't want to remove the old libraries. It is much better to do something like find /usr/lib -type f | xargs touch sleep 60 cd /usr/src make installworld You can now look for older stale (shared) libraries and then search /usr/local/bin for binaries that use those libraries. Note, the above doesn't work if you use "install -C" -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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