Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 10:20:17 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@physik.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /lib symlinks problem? Message-ID: <20030901072017.GH30277@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20030901065819.GB3811@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <200308291454.h7TEsb913915@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <20030829172348.1aa0b5d4.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <20030829161907.GA89129@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20030830135427.0cea7fdb.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <20030830185653.GA10674@sunbay.com> <20030831140742.3bd1b597.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <20030831145224.GC28845@sunbay.com> <20030901051049.GB91933@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030901064424.GA30277@sunbay.com> <20030901065819.GB3811@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 08:58:19AM +0200, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 09:44:24AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > I think that Gordon took a safe path with creating compatibility symlinks. > > Besides, creating compatibility symlinks has a nicety of removing your > > stale symlinks in /usr/lib. > > I always asked myself whether there is a tool or some kind of > database at which one can throw an existing installation and it > knows about which files have to be there and where and which ain't > to be there (like such symlink relicts), maybe a hook in install,cp,ln > and what else is being used in the world install process. > That way it could tell me what files are candidates for deleting. > Hold on, Warner is almost ready for an real solution here, I think. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software Ltd, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/UvMwUkv4P6juNwoRAtXqAJ9tdqVJWYdhW2ULG+cIBzOb5UPNsQCff2SP Ny3atXjSoZTObN+M8n7lFis= =uGUq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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