Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 10:35:39 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removing old binaries (was: Do we still need portmap(8)?) Message-ID: <20021008010539.GE57557@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10210072004230.1519-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> References: <20021007234610.GT14070@wantadilla.lemis.com> <Pine.GSO.4.10.10210072004230.1519-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
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On Monday, 7 October 2002 at 20:07:37 -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> I think we can greatly simplify things with one firm but relatively >> bearable rule: >> >> The directories /bin, /usr/bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin, <insert others >> here> are for the exclusive use of the system installer. Install >> other programs here at your peril: they will be overwritten on the >> next installation. >> >> There are then dozens of ways of finding the old files and removing >> them. I'd be inclined just to remove all files in those directories >> which are older than some file in the build tree--*after* a successful >> installation. >> >> Thoughts? > > I don't think doing this by default is a good idea. Sometimes I > like to preseve previous versions of things, knowing that they > work. Nothing's stopping you saving them first.. > I'd prefer this as a job for mergemaster, asking you confirmation > for each binary. I'd much rather not have to do *anything* manually. That includes updating /etc, but that's a much larger can of worms. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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