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Date:      Fri, 24 Jul 1998 18:23:22 +0200
From:      Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: /usr/lib/aout
Message-ID:  <19980724182322.A18313@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807240911230.19551-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 09:13:06AM -0700
References:  <19980724180714.A18189@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807240911230.19551-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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On Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 09:13:06AM -0700, Doug White wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 08:51:42AM -0700, Doug White wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I assume /usr/lib/aout has been invented to tell from 
> > > > elm vs. aout based systems.
> > > > 
> > > > When I upgrade a 1 year old -current system to a -current,
> > > > what should happen with the libs /usr/lib. Should I
> > > > remove them all?
> > > 
> > > /usr/lib/lib* can disappear once you've rebooted with new /etc/rc* and
> > > libs in aout.  ldconfig will DTRT (and stop complaining about /usr/lib).
> > > For security I moved them into /usr/lib/foo temporarily.
> > > 
> > 
> > The man page of ldconfig is still talking about a builtin /usr/lib.
> > This should disappear then, right?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > I had a problem this morning after moving from 3.0-current of July 1997
> > to 3.0-current of yesterday. Had to rebuild (at least) elm.
> > And when the user started elm he said he couldn't move
> > up down to the messages with the cursor keys.
> 
> Could be a curses thing.  
> 

Yes, thought so, too. 

> Ouch, a year migration of CURRENT?  Not fun. 
> 

Well, it went smoother than I initially feared. It was an iterative mix
of make bootstrap, make hierarchy, make install, build certain
key programs like config, install , ranlib, size, strip etc. 

I must say that I had built the world on a -current system first and then
mounted /usr/src, /usr/obj to do just the install.


> > I was blaming this to a possible mess I may have had with /usr/lib still
> > being in the ldconfig path.  Right now I'm gonna reboot that machine
> > with all stuff in /usr/lib removed and the right /etc/rc setting
> > as what LDC_ is concerned.
> 
> Copy in the new /etc/rc* from /usr/src/etc/rc* and
> /usr/src/etc/i386/rc.i386 and that will get you pointed right.  (don't
> spam rc.conf!)
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major

-- 
--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de

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