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Date:      Mon, 23 Oct 2000 16:41:48 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Nick Sayer <nsayer@sftw.com>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Old 4.0-R binaries remaining in 4.1.1-S 
Message-ID:  <200010232241.QAA10916@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:21:30 PDT." <39F4B9EA.FACF4464@sftw.com> 
References:  <39F4B9EA.FACF4464@sftw.com>  <200010230328.XAA16342@world.std.com> <200010231857.MAA09601@harmony.village.org> 

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In message <39F4B9EA.FACF4464@sftw.com> Nick Sayer writes:
: I suggest that UPDATING tell folks do an ls -alt on /bin, /sbin,
: /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/libexec, /usr/lib and /modules and look for
: old stuff. In the case of /usr/lib, *.so.*.* should be moved to
: /usr/lib/compat/aout and *.so.[0-9] should be moved to /usr/lib/compat.
: All others can be deleted. Searching and deprecating old stuff in
: /usr/share and /usr/include is... undefined. :-)

I'd prefer that we have a mtree.obsolete that can be used to find and
delete the files.  NetBSD has this concept (I haven't looked at it,
since they do it as part of the binary upgrade), which might make
sense for us too.

How do people feel about someone going off and doing this?

Warner


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