Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:05:17 -0400 From: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> To: Wolfgang Zenker <wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 7.x : make check-old Message-ID: <48E92C0D.60008@langille.org> In-Reply-To: <20081005114425.GA3978@lyxys.ka.sub.org> References: <48E69A3B.7090904@langille.org> <20081005114425.GA3978@lyxys.ka.sub.org>
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Wolfgang Zenker wrote: > Hi, > > * Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> [081004 00:18]: >> Folks: > >> I have upgraded a server from 6.3 to 7.0. That went rather smoothly. I >> have a question about removing old libraries via make delete-old. > >> Given the list of old libraries shown at the end of this URL: > >> http://www.freebsddiary.org/upgrade-6.3-to-7.0.php > >> Is that list more or less expected? From what I can tell, it's pretty >> safe to now do a make delete-old-libs. Do you concur? > > that depends on you having updated all ports/packages as well as the > base system. I did that. I made sure of that. > I think I used a tool that checks which shared libraries are > used by which program but can't remember how it was called; but anyway you > can simply use ldd on your binaries in /usr/local/* to check if any of > them still use one of the old libs. Is this correct: Worst case: some ports stop running? If so, I can live with that. :o Thank you.
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