Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:19:27 +0100 From: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: RFC: automated way of removing old base system files (only for a recent 6-current!) Message-ID: <20041024131927.GA60644@voi.aagh.net> In-Reply-To: <20041024124805.378e6bc3@Magellan.Leidinger.net> References: <20041016142502.6362d396@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20041023.194558.63828926.imp@bsdimp.com> <20041024124805.378e6bc3@Magellan.Leidinger.net>
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* Alexander Leidinger (Alexander@Leidinger.net) wrote:
> But mtree doesn't has an option to ask the user if he really wants to
> delete those files (at least it's not very obvious if you fast-read
> the man-page). Even if they are old base system files, I don't want to
> just remove them without explicit permission. Better safe than sorry.
> But maybe I'm paranoid (at least for files and directories, but I
> strongly discourage the automated removal of old libs).
Can you move them to another directory like portupgrade? Then just
leave it up to the user to clean out lib/compat/old or so?
--
Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst
http://hur.st/
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