Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:45:31 -0500 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Daniel Gerzo <danger@freebsd.org> Cc: "B. Cook" <bcook@poughkeepsieschools.org> Subject: Re: looks like success Message-ID: <200803031245.31936.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <256113233.20080302095043@rulez.sk> References: <740F46FB-B946-408F-8404-7C25E6273F43@poughkeepsieschools.org> <256113233.20080302095043@rulez.sk>
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On Sunday 02 March 2008 03:50:43 am Daniel Gerzo wrote: > Hello B., > > Thursday, February 28, 2008, 9:27:03 PM, you wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > make delete-old (took a long time to do by hand) > > and make delete-old-libs (went rather quickly) > > if you really want to delete all things: > > # yes | make delete-old While I've seen this suggestion before (and it's a very unix-y way to do it), the "canonical" method (from build(7)) is to run make -DBATCH_DELETE_OLD_FILES delete-old What I'd like to see (although I realize this isn't the correct forum..) is a make target that produces a list of files that _would_ be deleted, which the admin could then review and approve all or remove individual files to be preserved. But until I turn this into a useful PR or a nice request on a different list just consider it a rant. :) JN
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