Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:51:02 -0500 From: John Nielsen <john@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "B. Cook" <bcook@poughkeepsieschools.org>, Daniel Gerzo <danger@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: looks like success Message-ID: <200803031251.03136.john@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <200803031245.31936.lists@jnielsen.net> References: <740F46FB-B946-408F-8404-7C25E6273F43@poughkeepsieschools.org> <256113233.20080302095043@rulez.sk> <200803031245.31936.lists@jnielsen.net>
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On Monday 03 March 2008 12:45:31 pm John Nielsen wrote: > On Sunday 02 March 2008 03:50:43 am Daniel Gerzo wrote: > > Hello B., > > > > Thursday, February 28, 2008, 9:27:03 PM, you wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > make delete-old (took a long time to do by hand) > > > and make delete-old-libs (went rather quickly) > > > > if you really want to delete all things: > > > > # yes | make delete-old > > While I've seen this suggestion before (and it's a very unix-y way to > do it), the "canonical" method (from build(7)) is to run > make -DBATCH_DELETE_OLD_FILES delete-old > > What I'd like to see (although I realize this isn't the correct > forum..) is a make target that produces a list of files that _would_ be > deleted, which the admin could then review and approve all or remove > individual files to be preserved. But until I turn this into a useful > PR or a nice request on a different list just consider it a rant. :) Heh.. I didn't read the manpage I just referred to closely enough. There's a check-old (and a check-old-libs) target that makes just such a list. JN
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