Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:50:43 -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: <44vds63wl8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <3b47caa90901221548j7b311568x23636b3755473aa4@mail.gmail.com> (novembre@gmail.com's message of "Thu\, 22 Jan 2009 17\:48\:30 -0600") References: <3b47caa90901211835o7eae77d9v2bead5e01dcf14af@mail.gmail.com> <44fxjbwbds.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <3b47caa90901221548j7b311568x23636b3755473aa4@mail.gmail.com>
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Novembre <novembre@gmail.com> writes: > By 'orphan' do you mean the unreferenced libraries that libchk has found on > my machine? I mean it more loosely than that; I mean libraries that are really not needed anymore. Your use of libchk isn't really a guarantee that you can remove the library safely, although it will usually be the case. > I use portupgrade, and apparently, the upgrade process leaves them there. > I was also not aware of the 'make delete-old' step! I had never seen it > before. I did the > source upgrade of my machine following what is in the handbook, but i don't > remember > doing any 'make delete-old'... It's listed in the UPDATING file, which the handbook describes as required reading for updates. However, there's little harm from missing it. > What should I do with the unreferenced libraries and the ones on the > /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/ > directory? There's generally no need to do anything. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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