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Date:      Thu, 25 Mar 1999 15:21:58 -0000 (GMT)
From:      Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>
To:        Rich Winkel <rich@chumbly.math.missouri.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Staying behind
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990325152158.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>
In-Reply-To: <199903252015.OAA25997@chumbly.math.missouri.edu>

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On 25-Mar-99 Rich Winkel wrote:
> I've gone through several major releases of freebsd now, and find
> that
> I still have a number of files lying around from previous versions.
> (like dumplfs, mount_lfs, newlfs in /sbin)
> It would be handy if each major release comes with a list of the
> files from the previous release which have been phased out.
> How do other people deal with this?

I just ignore them!  But others have suggested the following:

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On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Ugo Paternostro wrote:

> Is there a way to detect obsolete files/shared libs after a make
> world other than manually scanning the directories looking for files
> that do not match the make world date?

There is a very nice script in
/usr/src/tools/LibraryReport/LibraryReport.tcl  
that does this. I do not know if this script is available under
-stable, but it is here on -current.
----

I've not tried it, but it makes sense.

Patrick

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