Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:59:02 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> To: John Nielsen <john@jnielsen.net> Cc: "B. Cook" <bcook@poughkeepsieschools.org>, Daniel Gerzo <danger@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: looks like success Message-ID: <47CC4A76.7010600@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <200803031251.03136.john@jnielsen.net> References: <740F46FB-B946-408F-8404-7C25E6273F43@poughkeepsieschools.org> <256113233.20080302095043@rulez.sk> <200803031245.31936.lists@jnielsen.net> <200803031251.03136.john@jnielsen.net>
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John Nielsen wrote: > 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 Thanks for that. I've been using # yes no | make delete-old to get that list. Well, my way still has the claim on being more amusing.
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