Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:34:37 +0200 From: Olivier Mueller <om-lists-bsd@omx.ch> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update - removing sources of a 7.2 system Message-ID: <1272378877.25688.15.camel@ompc.insign.local> In-Reply-To: <1271954598.19773.24.camel@frosch.omx.ch> References: <1271954598.19773.24.camel@frosch.omx.ch>
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Repost... Any idea, other should I really have a look at the source code of freebsd-update? :) Thanks & regards, O. On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 18:43 +0200, Olivier Mueller wrote: > Two little questions about freebsd-update "best-practices": > > 1) These are the output when I start a "freebsd-update upgrade" on two > different systems. On the first one, everything ok, on the second, the > sources are still there and I would like to get rid of them: > > sys1: > The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed: > kernel/generic world/base world/dict world/doc world/games world/info > world/manpages > > sys2: > The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed: > kernel/generic src/base src/bin src/cddl src/contrib src/crypto src/etc > src/games src/gnu src/include src/krb5 src/lib src/libexec src/release > src/rescue src/sbin src/secure src/share src/sys src/tools src/ubin > src/usbin world/base world/dict world/doc world/games world/info > world/lib32 world/manpages world/proflibs > > > > Just to be sure: is this correct that I can just remove these 2 > directories completely: > - /usr/src (500MB) > - /usr/obj/usr/src (1304MB) > and that it would solve my "problem" ? Or is there a list of "installed > components" somewhere that should be updated too? (I tried by renaming > these 2 dirs and running freebsd-update again and it seemed to work, but > I've not found that in the documentations I checked) > > > 2) directory "/var/db/freebsd-update/files" is getting large after a > few upgrades (800M-1.2GB): can it be deleted after an upgrade, once I > am sure a rollback will not be necessary for example? Or should rather > the while directory /var/db/freebsd-update be trashed ?
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