From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 1 00:20:30 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0870716A4BF; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 00:20:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C203043FE0; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 00:20:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@sunbay.com) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (ru@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h817KH86035219 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 10:20:20 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru@sunbay.com) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.12.9/8.12.8/Submit) id h817KHZW035214; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 10:20:17 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 10:20:17 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Message-ID: <20030901072017.GH30277@sunbay.com> References: <200308291454.h7TEsb913915@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <20030829172348.1aa0b5d4.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <20030829161907.GA89129@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20030830135427.0cea7fdb.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <20030830185653.GA10674@sunbay.com> <20030831140742.3bd1b597.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <20030831145224.GC28845@sunbay.com> <20030901051049.GB91933@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030901064424.GA30277@sunbay.com> <20030901065819.GB3811@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="mYYhpFXgKVw71fwr" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030901065819.GB3811@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: Warner Losh cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /lib symlinks problem? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 07:20:30 -0000 --mYYhpFXgKVw71fwr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 08:58:19AM +0200, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 09:44:24AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > I think that Gordon took a safe path with creating compatibility symlin= ks. > > Besides, creating compatibility symlinks has a nicety of removing your > > stale symlinks in /usr/lib. >=20 > I always asked myself whether there is a tool or some kind of > database at which one can throw an existing installation and it > knows about which files have to be there and where and which ain't > to be there (like such symlink relicts), maybe a hook in install,cp,ln > and what else is being used in the world install process.=20 > That way it could tell me what files are candidates for deleting. >=20 Hold on, Warner is almost ready for an real solution here, I think. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software Ltd, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --mYYhpFXgKVw71fwr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/UvMwUkv4P6juNwoRAtXqAJ9tdqVJWYdhW2ULG+cIBzOb5UPNsQCff2SP Ny3atXjSoZTObN+M8n7lFis= =uGUq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mYYhpFXgKVw71fwr--