Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2023 13:41:32 +0200 From: Yuri <yuri@aetern.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with left over files from earlier releases Message-ID: <60a9dff4-7820-2d66-1932-9dcf7c8bed01@aetern.org> In-Reply-To: <5742951.8T7jmnknE8@curlew> References: <7898912.iDzAj6rjnq@curlew> <1be44824-01e1-b1f8-72e0-73c7c18cda35@aetern.org> <5742951.8T7jmnknE8@curlew>
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Mike Clarke wrote: > On Wednesday, 19 April 2023 11:58:00 BST Yuri wrote: > >> Mike Clarke wrote: > > > <snip> > > >> > It looks like seven year old /usr/lib/libelf.so.1 is left over from an > >> > old version. Booting from a memstick image confirms there is no > >> > /usr/lib/libelf.so.1 in 'out of the box' FreeBSD 13.1 so I deleted it > >> > and both programs worked. But this makes me wonder how many redundant > >> > old files might be lying around in the base system and potentially > >> > causing problems. Is there any easy way to track these down other than > >> > doing a fresh install from scratch? Since I'm intending to upgrade to > >> > 13.2 soon this could be a good time to see if there's more redundant > >> > stuff to clean out. > >> > >> If you are using source upgrades, check list-old* and delete-old* > >> targets in /usr/src/Makefile. > > > I usually use freebsd-update but it might be worth going back to > updating from source this time. If you have src installed, and it IS up to date with currently running release, you could try using those targets anyway. OTOH, I don't know if freebsd-update is supposed to take care of obsolete files/directories.
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