From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 24 13:19:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8496C16A4CE for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 13:19:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mta08-svc.ntlworld.com (mta08-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE1E043D1D for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 13:19:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tom.hurst@clara.net) Received: from voi.aagh.net ([81.104.55.176]) by mta08-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.37 201-229-121-137-20020806) with ESMTP id <20041024131929.BFOL26479.mta08-svc.ntlworld.com@voi.aagh.net>; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:19:29 +0100 Received: from freaky by voi.aagh.net with local (Exim 4.42 (FreeBSD)) id 1CLiHP-000G21-HP; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:19:27 +0100 Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:19:27 +0100 From: Thomas Hurst To: Alexander Leidinger Message-ID: <20041024131927.GA60644@voi.aagh.net> Mail-Followup-To: Alexander Leidinger , "M. Warner Losh" , current@freebsd.org References: <20041016142502.6362d396@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20041023.194558.63828926.imp@bsdimp.com> <20041024124805.378e6bc3@Magellan.Leidinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041024124805.378e6bc3@Magellan.Leidinger.net> Organization: Not much. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: Thomas Hurst cc: current@freebsd.org cc: "M. Warner Losh" Subject: Re: RFC: automated way of removing old base system files (only for a recent 6-current!) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 13:19:41 -0000 * 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/