From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 24 10:48:16 2004 Return-Path: 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 67DF616A4CF for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 10:48:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailout06.sul.t-online.com (mailout06.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C916443D1D for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 10:48:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from fwd11.aul.t-online.de by mailout06.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 1CLfv3-0003E3-00; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 12:48:13 +0200 Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (ZeyIEkZYZewofjoo0g-wgdsT00fhwsqW9ZO2Aygm7glP1tPA9rC46L@[84.128.202.145]) by fmrl11.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 1CLfur-22r2qe0; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 12:48:01 +0200 Received: from Magellan.Leidinger.net (Magellan.Leidinger.net [192.168.1.1]) i9OAlpp6074431; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 12:47:52 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 12:48:05 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger To: "M. Warner Losh" Message-ID: <20041024124805.378e6bc3@Magellan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20041023.194558.63828926.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20041016142502.6362d396@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20041023.194558.63828926.imp@bsdimp.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12b (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ID: ZeyIEkZYZewofjoo0g-wgdsT00fhwsqW9ZO2Aygm7glP1tPA9rC46L@t-dialin.net X-TOI-MSGID: b0d9194e-8757-495e-abea-c09e88702d41 cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: automated way of removing old base system files (only for a recent 6-current!) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 10:48:16 -0000 On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 19:45:58 -0600 (MDT) "M. Warner Losh" wrote: > This looks interesting. However, it may make more sense to use mtree > to delete this, like NetBSD does. But mtree doesn't has an option to ask the user if he really wants to delete those files (at least it's not very obvious if you fast-read the man-page). Even if they are old base system files, I don't want to just remove them without explicit permission. Better safe than sorry. But maybe I'm paranoid (at least for files and directories, but I strongly discourage the automated removal of old libs). If there's consensus that we should use mtree to remove the files and directories I will switch to mtree (so far you're the only one who responded to this, so it would be nice of someone else would tell us his prefered color too), but you have to write a lot more to convince me to do the same for the libraries. Bye, Alexander. -- The best things in life are free, but the expensive ones are still worth a look. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7