On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 7 October 2002 at 11:20:56 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> It's been a while since we've used portmap(8) on -CURRENT systems. Is > >> it still needed, or can it be removed completely? At the very least, > >> the man page should stop claiming that it's necessary to run NFS. > > > > I think that we need a mtree.obsolete that goes through and deletes > > these sorts of things as part of installworld/upgrade scripts. > > I think we can greatly simplify things with one firm but relatively > bearable rule: > > The directories /bin, /usr/bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin, <insert others > here> are for the exclusive use of the system installer. Install > other programs here at your peril: they will be overwritten on the > next installation. > > There are then dozens of ways of finding the old files and removing > them. I'd be inclined just to remove all files in those directories > which are older than some file in the build tree--*after* a successful > installation. > > Thoughts?
I don't think doing this by default is a good idea. Sometimes I like to preseve previous versions of things, knowing that they work. I'd prefer this as a job for mergemaster, asking you confirmation for each binary. -- Dan Eischen To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
