Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 19:04:59 +0200
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>
Cc: current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: installworld and stale {include,lib} fun
Message-ID: <20021123170459.GB1289@gothmog.gr>
In-Reply-To: <200211231036.gANAaGaq028385@grimreaper.grondar.org>
References: <20021123040317.GA4320@gothmog.gr> <200211231036.gANAaGaq028385@grimreaper.grondar.org>
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On 2002-11-23 10:36, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> 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. That's fair enough. I wasn't implying that everyone should do this, all the time. How does the following footnote look? %%% Index: UPDATING =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/UPDATING,v retrieving revision 1.228 diff -u -r1.228 UPDATING --- UPDATING 30 Oct 2002 20:11:07 -0000 1.228 +++ UPDATING 23 Nov 2002 17:03:07 -0000 @@ -1017,6 +1017,7 @@ [1] <reboot in single user> [3] mergemaster -p [5] + <maybe clean up /usr/include and /usr/lib> [10] make installworld mergemaster [4] <reboot> @@ -1116,6 +1117,25 @@ [9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have cvs prune empty directories. + + [10] Just before running "make installworld" in single user mode, you + might want to run the following to make sure there are no stale + include files or libraries in your installed system: + cd /usr + mv include include.old + mkdir include + mtree -deU < /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.include.dist + mv lib lib.old + mkdir lib + ldconfig -elf /usr/lib.old + Note that you should be careful when libraries have been obsoleted, + since it is possible for some of your ports or packages to break, if + they had been linked against libraries that are moved to /usr/lib.old + by this. Don't remove /usr/lib.old right away! You might find that + it still has libraries you need. After you have installed everything + and checked that no problems of missing libraries exist, you can + safely remove both /usr/include.old and /usr/lib.old. + FORMAT: This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major %%% To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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