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Date:      Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:05:00 -0800
From:      Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   How older files installed by previous versions of FreeBSD are supposed to be deleted?
Message-ID:  <4D60CB2C.8080402@rawbw.com>

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I updated my system many times.
As a result I have many older libraries with different numbers:
/lib/libm.so.4
/lib/libm.so.5

/lib/libutil.so.5
/lib/libutil.so.7
/lib/libutil.so.8
/lib/libutil.so.9

/lib/libc.so.6
/lib/libc.so.7

How older files are normally deleted? Is there a script that finds older 
versions and deletes them? Otherwise after a while all possible versions 
will accumulate there.
I suspect the same happens under /etc with various renamed/deleted files.

Yuri



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