Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 20:48:17 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Joshua Goodall <joshua@roughtrade.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating -CURRENT, what about outdated files? Message-ID: <20030524174817.GA42456@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20030524084432.GA509@roughtrade.net> References: <20030523203517.GA93787@attbi.com> <20030524034419.GA63643@sunbay.com> <20030524084432.GA509@roughtrade.net>
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On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 06:44:32PM +1000, Joshua Goodall wrote:
> On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 06:44:19AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > I do this a lot too. And I use "find . -mtime +1 ! -type d" to
> > seek for the stale stuff. This of course requires that you're
> > not running with ``INSTALL="install -C"'' in /etc/make.conf.
>
> Is there any part of installworld that uses tools other than
> rm, mtree, install and ln?
>
Sure, a lot of. We use all tools that are copied into the
${INSTALLTMP} as the first step of installworld.
> With appropriate wrappers, it shouldn't be hard to maintain
> a canonical list of installed files; it's not far from there
> to detection of stale base files.
>
No, this is not as easy as it may seem at a glance. Some
files are only installed if the destination does not yet
exist, and there you are going to have a problem with this
approarch.
Cheers,
--
Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA,
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ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer,
+380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine
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