From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Oct 24 7:40:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0622A37B479 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 07:40:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id HAA14046; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 07:40:05 -0700 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda14040; Tue Oct 24 07:39:51 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.0/8.9.1) id e9OEdo712272; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 07:39:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdd12269; Tue Oct 24 07:39:38 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.1/8.9.1) id e9OEdbl30832; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 07:39:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200010241439.e9OEdbl30832@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdE30827; Tue Oct 24 07:39:24 2000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE X-Sender: cy To: Warner Losh Cc: Nick Sayer , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Old 4.0-R binaries remaining in 4.1.1-S In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Oct 2000 16:41:48 MDT." <200010232241.QAA10916@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 07:39:23 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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