From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 23 14:50:45 2009 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 A6FB8106567E for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:50:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DA478FC21 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:50:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 28123 invoked from network); 23 Jan 2009 14:50:45 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 23 Jan 2009 14:50:44 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 7E1CE50844; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:50:43 -0500 (EST) To: Novembre References: <3b47caa90901211835o7eae77d9v2bead5e01dcf14af@mail.gmail.com> <44fxjbwbds.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <3b47caa90901221548j7b311568x23636b3755473aa4@mail.gmail.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:50:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: <3b47caa90901221548j7b311568x23636b3755473aa4@mail.gmail.com> (novembre@gmail.com's message of "Thu\, 22 Jan 2009 17\:48\:30 -0600") Message-ID: <44vds63wl8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: old cruft after source upgrading --- clean install? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD Questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:50:46 -0000 Novembre 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/