Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 21:52:19 +0200 From: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> To: Kris Kennaway <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 6.0 release date and stability Message-ID: <20051022195219.GA931@pooh.nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <20051022183025.GD28420@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <disfuq$iag$1@sea.gmane.org> <20051016135752.6bcc6874.dick@nagual.st> <AB7EBC6B-6036-4CA9-918C-1FD553E019AD@khera.org> <20051019231046.1136a1ea.dick@nagual.st> <op.sywwy9cy8527sy@outgoing.local> <20051019225351.GA77421@xor.obsecurity.org> <20051021202127.30c0d3f3.dick@nagual.st> <20051021193052.GA13306@xor.obsecurity.org> <20051022154133.162bd2ed.dick@nagual.st> <20051022183025.GD28420@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On 22 Oct Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 03:41:33PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:30:52 -0400 > > Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > > > > > > But he old libraries are still on the system than, aren't they? > > > > Or will they not be used and if not, why? > > > > > > Use libchk and pkg_which..see their manpages. > > > > After looking into the manual(s) this seems to be a "dangerous" or at > > least not an easy operation. Can someone be a little more specific > > about how to remove old 4.x / 5.x libraries from a FreeBSD system? > > That's the best there is for 6.0 (so run a full backup first). 7.0 > has a 'make delete-old' target that removes known old files from your > base system. I don't know if netchild has plans to backport it, but > you could ask him. OK, thanks for this answer. I may be overreacting ;-) Is it Ok to say that after *recompiling* each port with "portupgrade -fa" on a 5.4 system updated to 6.0 old libraries will no be dangerous in a way that they would be used any longer? Should I remove the compat-options from the kernel before or after the recompilation of all ports? -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11-stable ++ FreeBSD 5.4 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja
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