Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:06:43 +0100 From: "Herbert J. Skuhra" <hskuhra@fastmail.fm> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How older files installed by previous versions of FreeBSD are supposed to be deleted? Message-ID: <87r5b3rs64.wl%hskuhra@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <4D60CB2C.8080402@rawbw.com> References: <4D60CB2C.8080402@rawbw.com>
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On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:05:00 -0800 Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> wrote: > 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. # cd /usr/src # make delete-old # make delete-old-libs Afterwards you probably have to rebuild many installed ports. > I suspect the same happens under /etc with various renamed/deleted files. % man mergemaster
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