Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:58:02 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why install -C include files? Message-ID: <200107251458.f6PEw3o07608@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:54:14 %2B0200." <6000.996072854@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> References: <6000.996072854@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
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In message <6000.996072854@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Sheldon Hearn writes: : : : On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:48:36 CST, Warner Losh wrote: : : > : Why are include files installed using -C instead of -c? This makes it : > : harder to find stale includes. : > : > I've wanted to have a /etc/mtree/bsd.obsolete for a long time now... : : That would make me too nervous. All I really want is the assurance that : ``make world'' updates the mtime of every file it would have installed : if not present at install time. : : With revived CLOBBER support and COPY=-c, the only problem children are : symbolic links. Everything else can be hunted down with find -mtime X. The reason I'd like to see it isn't so that make world kills things automatically, but so that I could kill them (or at least find out what should be killed) on systems that had FreeBSD 1.0 installed on them, then upgraded, disk cloned, etc. At one point I had 4 machines that were created by this method from my original FreeBSD installation. However, I don't think I have anything further back than 2.2.8 or 3.2 as the base of a system right now due to EOL on spinning media, lapses in backup discipline, etc. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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