Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 18:28:14 +0100 From: Markus Edemalm <markus@edemalm.se> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Safe to delete old files in /usr/lib? Message-ID: <F4E4B196-36B4-40FE-A54B-FEA95DA96772@edemalm.se> In-Reply-To: <20160104181211.76907a30.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <D6FAF4F3-EE48-4411-909D-9D13D8B9B620@edemalm.se> <20160104181211.76907a30.freebsd@edvax.de>
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> 4 jan. 2016 kl. 18:12 skrev Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>: >=20 > On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 18:06:00 +0100, Markus Edemalm wrote: >> Hello, >>=20 >> My system was first installed as 10.0-RELEASE. I have since upgraded = to 10.1, 10.1-STABLE, 10.2-RELEASE and is now at 10.2-RELEASE-p8. >> I=E2=80=99ve rebuild from source and followed the steps in the = handbook. Everything is fine=E2=80=A6 but: >>=20 >> I see many files in /usr/lib with old dates, apparently they are no = longer installed during upgrades. >>=20 >> My /etc/make.conf looks like this: >>=20 >> NO_PROFILE=3Dtrue >> WITHOUT_X11=3Dyes >>=20 >> Today, January the 4th, I upgraded to -p8. The newly installed files = has todays date, i.e =E2=80=9DJan 4=E2=80=9D. >> If I do: >>=20 >> ls -lF /usr/lib | grep -v 'Jan 4' | awk {'print $9'} >>=20 >> =E2=80=A6I get the following list of (obsolete?) files and folders = with older dates. >>=20 >> aout/ >> compat/ >> libBlocksRuntime.a >> libalias.a >> libalias_cuseeme.a [long list cut] >> liby.a >> libypclnt.a >> libz.a >> libzfs.a >> libzfs_core.a >> libzpool.a >>=20 >> Would it be safe to delete them? >=20 > If you install from source, use the following targets: >=20 > # check-old - List obsolete directories/files/libraries. > # check-old-dirs - List obsolete directories. > # check-old-files - List obsolete files. > # check-old-libs - List obsolete libraries. Sorry, no files in /usr/lib comes up. Just a few others I know about. > And then: >=20 > # delete-old - Delete obsolete directories/files/libraries. > # delete-old-dirs - Delete obsolete directories. > # delete-old-files - Delete obsolete files. > # delete-old-libs - Delete obsolete libraries. >=20 > See the comment header of /usr/src/Makefile for more information > (and how those targets fit the recommended updating procedure, > listed a few lines later). >=20 > Generally speaking: As long as no program is linked against those > files, and no program requires them, they can be deleted. This > statement highly depends on which programs you have installed > and what they are linked against. :-) Thank you. Still wonder why they are so many and where the came from in = the first place. And, they are all .a files, except for libc++.so and libc.so. I added NO_PROFILE=3Dtrue to /etc/make.conf a while back. Is that = relevant? >=20 > --=20 > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, =E2=80=A6 Thanks again, ME
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