Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:31:27 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Novembre <novembre@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: old cruft after source upgrading --- clean install? Message-ID: <44fxjbwbds.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <3b47caa90901211835o7eae77d9v2bead5e01dcf14af@mail.gmail.com> (novembre@gmail.com's message of "Wed\, 21 Jan 2009 20\:35\:53 -0600") References: <3b47caa90901211835o7eae77d9v2bead5e01dcf14af@mail.gmail.com>
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Novembre <novembre@gmail.com> writes: > I have a system which was updated from 6.3-RELEASE to 7.0-RELEASE some > eight months ago via a source upgrade. After that, I rebuilt all the > packages on the system as well. Now, I would like to update it again > to 7.1-RELEASE, and I'm wondering whether I should do a clean install > or just do a source upgrade again. My question is regarding all the > old cruft that remains after the upgrade and rebuilding of all the > packages, as I already know that there are a bunch of old libraries > residing somewhere on the system. pkg_delete (or portupgrade, etc.) should not orphan any libraries (occasionally there is a bug in a port that does, but it's rare). As far as the base system, remember the "make delete-old" step, which is part of the official UPDATING instructions. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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