Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 15:56:54 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> Cc: Kris Kennaway <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 6.0 release date and stability Message-ID: <20051022195654.GB47430@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20051022195219.GA931@pooh.nagual.st> References: <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> <20051022195219.GA931@pooh.nagual.st>
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--kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 09:52:19PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: > 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: > > >=20 > > > > > But he old libraries are still on the system than, aren't they? > > > > > Or will they not be used and if not, why? > > > >=20 > > > > Use libchk and pkg_which..see their manpages. > > >=20 > > > 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? > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > 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? Yes. You can verify this with libchk. > Should I remove the compat-options from the kernel before or after the > recompilation of all ports? After you're sure nothing uses them any longer, or you'll have a partly broken system in the meantime. Kris --kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDWpmGWry0BWjoQKURAo8TAJ0cU0o6RWy3IjOemJka3U6Rg60d5gCdHxct H/YLfTzsnbZBQa2uVFtre7g= =FDnt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R--
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