From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 7 14:54:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8076237B401; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:54:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2731743E6A; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:54:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0388.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.193.133] helo=mindspring.com) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17yekM-0003xa-00; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 13:44:58 -0700 Message-ID: <3DA1F203.6CD50B5C@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 13:43:47 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Archie Cobbs Cc: "M. Warner Losh" , grog@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Do we still need portmap(8)? References: <200210071735.g97HZokf056512@arch20m.dellroad.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Archie Cobbs wrote: > M. Warner Losh writes: > > : It's been a while since we've used portmap(8) on -CURRENT systems. Is > > : it still needed, or can it be removed completely? At the very least, > > : the man page should stop claiming that it's necessary to run NFS. > > > > I think that we need a mtree.obsolete that goes through and deletes > > these sorts of things as part of installworld/upgrade scripts. > > I totally agree.. I was thinking that mergemaster could have a > 'hit list' of files that can be been removed. How will this work for "perl", which is not removed, but is instead replaced with a stub shell script? I guess you can live with binaries linked against older versions of shared libraries suddenly not functioning... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message