From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 3 17:51:04 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C810B1065670 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:51:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB69E8FC13 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:51:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john@jnielsen.net) Received: from [192.168.3.245] (jn@stealth.jnielsen.net [74.218.226.254]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m23Hp3Zl099217; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:51:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from john@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:51:02 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <740F46FB-B946-408F-8404-7C25E6273F43@poughkeepsieschools.org> <256113233.20080302095043@rulez.sk> <200803031245.31936.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <200803031245.31936.lists@jnielsen.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803031251.03136.john@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: "B. Cook" , Daniel Gerzo Subject: Re: looks like success X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:51:04 -0000 On Monday 03 March 2008 12:45:31 pm John Nielsen wrote: > 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. :) Heh.. I didn't read the manpage I just referred to closely enough. There's a check-old (and a check-old-libs) target that makes just such a list. JN