Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 11:16:42 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /lib symlinks problem? Message-ID: <20030901081642.GA40983@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20030901.012249.118997606.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20030901064424.GA30277@sunbay.com> <20030901065819.GB3811@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <20030901072017.GH30277@sunbay.com> <20030901.012249.118997606.imp@bsdimp.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 01:22:49AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20030901072017.GH30277@sunbay.com> > Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> writes: > : 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 symlinks. > : > > Besides, creating compatibility symlinks has a nicety of removing your > : > > stale symlinks in /usr/lib. > : > > : > 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. > : > That way it could tell me what files are candidates for deleting. > : > > : Hold on, Warner is almost ready for an real solution here, I think. > > My tool is initially just a 'delete these files' tool, but now that I > think about it, it wouldn't be hard to say also 'create these > symlinks'. The hard part here is generating the 'obsolete' lists. > But ``delete these files'' is what's actually needed here. ;-) Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software Ltd, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/UwBqUkv4P6juNwoRAsgTAKCB2tBXtXzsKnI41FgbV6MASklZvwCffdXE IVBchBWTj7+xsuFrI1oSfIw= =bGAk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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