Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 02:39:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: /lib symlinks problem? Message-ID: <20030901023511.L3776@znfgre.qbhto.arg> In-Reply-To: <20030901093220.GC40983@sunbay.com> References: <20030901064424.GA30277@sunbay.com> <20030901065819.GB3811@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <20030901.012249.118997606.imp@bsdimp.com> <20030901093220.GC40983@sunbay.com>
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On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > I posted one approach to this today... touch a file right before you
> > start installworld, then consider anything not newer than that file a
> > candidate for disposal. There is currently something weird going on in
> > /usr/lib though... a lot of the files don't have newer dates, I haven't
> > tracked down why yet.
> >
> This is because static libraries are installed with -C. The reasoning
> was like this:
>
> On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 02:15:56PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 12:28:17PM -0800, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > > > Log:
> > > > Install static and profiled libraries with -C.
> > > Um why, what's so special about them?
> >
> > They appear in dependency lists. This was discussed on -arch.
Can you fill in a little more detail here? I really prefer the old
behavior, not using -C.
> This also will not work for anything that has not changed and is
> installed with -C, that is includes,
I posted my script to -current just today. I 'mv include include-old' to
handle this. I also blow away /usr/share/man, since creating it from
scratch is just as easy as trying to cleanse it.
> rtld-elf, and some parts of /sys/boot.
I haven't touched /boot yet, I'm not that brave. :) There are a couple
other things that my script doesn't handle just on the basis of "newer
than," but as a proof of concept it's quite functional.
Doug
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