Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 14:03:39 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: Files in /usr/src Message-ID: <XFMail.010302140339.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200103022123.f22LNxL22474@ptavv.es.net>
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On 02-Mar-01 Kevin Oberman wrote: > Today I ran cvsupchk over my source tree to see if there was any old > cruft to clean up. I've done this for my ports, but never for src. > > In any case, it spotted some stuff I had edited, as I would expect, > but it also found object and other files in sys/modules/agp, > sys/modules/if_tap, and sys/modules/netgraph/ether. all files were > created back in July and August of last year. > > I can't imagine how I could have causes these to be created, but I > thought that FreeBSD never touched the src tree during a make world, > so I am uncertain if it's save to remove these. Could there have been > some weirdness back then in the buildkernel stuff? I seem to recall > that the building of modules was moved out of buildworld and into > buildkernel at about that time. > > Thanks, These are just from where the modules were built by hand, for example: # cd /sys/modules/agp ; make You can safely remove these files. In fact, you can just do something like this: # cd /sys/modules/agp # make cleandir ; make cleandir # cd ../if_tap # make cleandir ; make cleandir # cd ../netgraph/ether # make cleandir ; make cleandir to clean all of them out. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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