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Date:      Tue, 4 Jul 2000 02:05:00 -0700
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To:        Scott Michel <scottm@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: manifest?
Message-ID:  <20000704020500.E679@dialin-client.earthlink.net>
In-Reply-To: <200007022019.NAA21335@mordred.cs.ucla.edu>; from scottm@cs.ucla.edu on Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 01:19:00PM -0700
References:  <200007022019.NAA21335@mordred.cs.ucla.edu>

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On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 01:19:00PM -0700, Scott Michel wrote:
> Is there a manifest of what files should be in a 4.x system, excluding ports,
> so that one can clean up after an upgrade, e.g. delete shared libs that used
> to belong to older versions of FreeBSD?
> 
> I know that ports will link older files, but they can always be rebuilt.

I think this would be a problem when people customize their make world
via /etc/make.conf. It will look like there are a lot of files
missing.

If you are worried about old libs hanging around, they only really
live in one place,

  # ls -lt /usr/lib/*.so*

Should give you the info you need to delete the files (there are not
that many) that might have changed. Watch out for broken symlinks too.

What I found a little more worrisome on a 3.x to 4.0 upgrade was that
some things moved from /usr/sbin to /sbin. There were two executables
hanging about. Immediately after the make world, you can look at all
of the old files left by doing something like,

  # find / -type d -mtime +1

-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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