On Monday, 7 October 2002 at 17:44:42 -0700, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:16:10AM +0930, 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? >> > > What would you do about "install -C"?
I think it confuses the issue rather than solving it. We're talking about removing binaries which are no longer needed, not replacing binaries that are needed. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
