Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 07:39:23 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Nick Sayer <nsayer@sftw.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Old 4.0-R binaries remaining in 4.1.1-S Message-ID: <200010241439.e9OEdbl30832@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Oct 2000 16:41:48 MDT." <200010232241.QAA10916@harmony.village.org>
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Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC In message <200010232241.QAA10916@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes: > In message <39F4B9EA.FACF4464@sftw.com> Nick Sayer writes: > : I suggest that UPDATING tell folks do an ls -alt on /bin, /sbin, > : /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/libexec, /usr/lib and /modules and look for > : old stuff. In the case of /usr/lib, *.so.*.* should be moved to > : /usr/lib/compat/aout and *.so.[0-9] should be moved to /usr/lib/compat. > : All others can be deleted. Searching and deprecating old stuff in > : /usr/share and /usr/include is... undefined. :-) > > I'd prefer that we have a mtree.obsolete that can be used to find and > delete the files. NetBSD has this concept (I haven't looked at it, > since they do it as part of the binary upgrade), which might make > sense for us too. > > How do people feel about someone going off and doing this? I like the idea, especially if mtree would have an interactive option. Blindly deleting files, especially if the to-be-deleted file is a local modification or a symlink to another file. An interactive option would allow those of us who wish to err on the side of caution. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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