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Date:      Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:19:27 +0100
From:      Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Cc:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Subject:   Re: RFC: automated way of removing old base system files (only for a recent 6-current!)
Message-ID:  <20041024131927.GA60644@voi.aagh.net>
In-Reply-To: <20041024124805.378e6bc3@Magellan.Leidinger.net>
References:  <20041016142502.6362d396@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20041023.194558.63828926.imp@bsdimp.com> <20041024124805.378e6bc3@Magellan.Leidinger.net>

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* Alexander Leidinger (Alexander@Leidinger.net) wrote:

> But mtree doesn't has an option to ask the user if he really wants to
> delete those files (at least it's not very obvious if you fast-read
> the man-page). Even if they are old base system files, I don't want to
> just remove them without explicit permission. Better safe than sorry.
> But maybe I'm paranoid (at least for files and directories, but I
> strongly discourage the automated removal of old libs).

Can you move them to another directory like portupgrade?  Then just
leave it up to the user to clean out lib/compat/old or so?

-- 
Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst
    http://hur.st/



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