Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 14:30:25 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0 release date and stability Message-ID: <20051022183025.GD28420@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20051022154133.162bd2ed.dick@nagual.st> References: <200510152346.RAA20742@lariat.net> <disfuq$iag$1@sea.gmane.org> <20051016135752.6bcc6874.dick@nagual.st> <AB7EBC6B-6036-4CA9-918C-1FD553E019AD@khera.org> <20051019231046.1136a1ea.dick@nagual.st> <op.sywwy9cy8527sy@outgoing.local> <20051019225351.GA77421@xor.obsecurity.org> <20051021202127.30c0d3f3.dick@nagual.st> <20051021193052.GA13306@xor.obsecurity.org> <20051022154133.162bd2ed.dick@nagual.st>
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--zbGR4y+acU1DwHSi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 03:41:33PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: > On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:30:52 -0400 > Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: >=20 > > > But he old libraries are still on the system than, aren't they? > > > Or will they not be used and if not, why? > >=20 > > Use libchk and pkg_which..see their manpages. >=20 > After looking into the manual(s) this seems to be a "dangerous" or at > least not an easy operation. Can someone be a little more specific > about how to remove old 4.x / 5.x libraries from a FreeBSD system? That's the best there is for 6.0 (so run a full backup first). 7.0 has a 'make delete-old' target that removes known old files from your base system. I don't know if netchild has plans to backport it, but you could ask him. Kris --zbGR4y+acU1DwHSi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDWoVAWry0BWjoQKURAjQvAJ4mQrqpqBdvvrNyePaATFAhQe/q1ACglXnk GABAu9BDjOLwGIWaOXGvcdE= =tDPL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zbGR4y+acU1DwHSi--
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