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Date:      Sat, 24 May 2003 18:44:32 +1000
From:      Joshua Goodall <joshua@roughtrade.net>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Updating -CURRENT, what about outdated files?
Message-ID:  <20030524084432.GA509@roughtrade.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030524034419.GA63643@sunbay.com>
References:  <20030523203517.GA93787@attbi.com> <20030524034419.GA63643@sunbay.com>

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On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 06:44:19AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> I do this a lot too.  And I use "find . -mtime +1 ! -type d" to
> seek for the stale stuff.  This of course requires that you're
> not running with ``INSTALL="install -C"'' in /etc/make.conf.

Is there any part of installworld that uses tools other than
rm, mtree, install and ln?

With appropriate wrappers, it shouldn't be hard to maintain
a canonical list of installed files; it's not far from there
to detection of stale base files.

J



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