From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 1 01:17:21 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 39BD016A4BF for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 01:17:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D3ED43FE0 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 01:17:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@sunbay.com) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (ru@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h818Gk86043837 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 11:16:49 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru@sunbay.com) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.12.9/8.12.8/Submit) id h818GhXB043828; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 11:16:43 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 11:16:42 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: "M. Warner Losh" Message-ID: <20030901081642.GA40983@sunbay.com> References: <20030901064424.GA30277@sunbay.com> <20030901065819.GB3811@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <20030901072017.GH30277@sunbay.com> <20030901.012249.118997606.imp@bsdimp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030901.012249.118997606.imp@bsdimp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: kuku@physik.rwth-aachen.de 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 08:17:21 -0000 --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 01:22:49AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20030901072017.GH30277@sunbay.com> > Ruslan Ermilov 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 sy= mlinks. > : > > Besides, creating compatibility symlinks has a nicety of removing y= our > : > > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 But ``delete these files'' is what's actually needed here. ;-) Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software Ltd, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/UwBqUkv4P6juNwoRAsgTAKCB2tBXtXzsKnI41FgbV6MASklZvwCffdXE IVBchBWTj7+xsuFrI1oSfIw= =bGAk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7--