Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 09:15:31 +1100 From: jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> To: Khetan Gajjar <khetan@iafrica.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Greg Lehey's Brains WANTED :-) Message-ID: <19990205091531.C18514@caamora.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902041928040.76837-100000@chain.freebsd.os.org.za>; from Khetan Gajjar on Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 07:32:10PM %2B0200 References: <199902041502.SAA03963@isis.dynip.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902041928040.76837-100000@chain.freebsd.os.org.za>
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On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 07:32:10PM +0200, Khetan Gajjar wrote: > On Thu, 4 Feb 1999 root@isis.dynip.com wrote: > > > I am currently Nuking aout stuff from my system, and reinstalling the > > ports, etc. I need some script to traverse the whole system searching > > for aout libs, and binaries, and write their path to a file so I can > > figure out where they are burried. > > Assuming you've done nothing non-standard, and have always used ports > and packages to install things, then /var/db/pkg/ contains a directory > named the package/port name, and inside is a +CONTENTS file which > includes the files installed (hopefully). > > You can just pkg_delete <pkg_name> to delete the package. > > If you've done a make-aout-to-elf or installed 3.0 or above, > then everything in /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin, /usr/bin and /usr/include > should be ok. The "problem" lies in /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/sbin, > /usr/local/lib, /usr/X11R6/lib and /usr/X11R6/bin. For the non-standard > installed binaries, you can do some sort of file to see if it's ELF > or not. > > The libraries at least are fairly easy to locate - look for a > aout directory. i was wondering if somebody could explain to me and the others wonder this question .. why is this move to elf so good, expedient and or why is everybody falling over backwards to get thier. i am not a programmer, so i cannot see the difference(s), if thier are any between aout and elf. other than say the fact that linux runs elf and we need that to be linux compatible .. have out linux emulator work .. sort off. some pointers and explanation in non programmer-ezze would be muchly apreciated. regards, jonathan -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia ===========================================================<jon@caamora.com.au> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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