----- Original Message ----- From: Alexander Leidinger <[email protected]> To: Gonzalo Nemmi <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:34:23 +0200 Subject: Re: Improve OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc
> Quoting Gonzalo Nemmi <[email protected]> (from Tue, 5 Oct 2010 > 01:30:00 +0200): > > > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Paul B Mahol <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 10/4/10, Peter Pentchev <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 11:01:45AM +0000, Paul B Mahol wrote: > >>>> On 10/4/10, Alexander Leidinger <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>>> > At least status-mailq is still useful with other MTAs, e.g. if you use > >>>> > postfix (and assuming the mailwrapper is configured correctly), this > >>>> > should still work. Depending on the setup of the aliases, > >>>> > backup-aliases will still work too. I haven't checked for the other > >>>> > ones. > >>>> > >>>> If you want to keep some "old" files, you just need to press `n' instead > >>>> of `y' > >>>> when deleting files. You are not forced to run make delete-old at all. > >>> > >>> On the other hand, doing this (skipping those files) on each and every > >>> system > >>> update (say, on a development or testing machine) could get a bit... > >>> boring > >>> - > >>> not to mention that at some point you'll learn to "oh, just say no", and > >>> then > >>> forget to remove something important. > >> > >> Oh! I see... I want it in black. > > > > Hold your horses there ... get it to work as expected and then, > > _and_only_then_ you can start raising your finger and accussing poster > > of bikesheding ... > > As it stands, _it_sucks_ and I have already pointed it out before > > without much success (something as useless as telnet wasn´t deleted a > > not so long time ago) ... Peter Pentchev´s point was a completely > > valid one. > > As the one who wrote the functionailty: The delete-old stuff is > designed to delete stuff which was installed by an installworld (or > similar) before, but is not installed by installworld (or similar) > now. As there may be old programs around which depend upon such a file > or directory, you have to explicitely tell if you are ok to delete it > or not (it is the responsability of the administrator to make sure > everything is OK). If you are sure no program still depends upon it > (make check-old), you can specify -DBATCH_DELETE_OLD_FILES to delete > everything without being asked (see "man build"). > > As we've read in this thread that the files I would like to keep are > not installed by an installworld if the corresponding option is > specified, the patch is 100% correct and Peter and you want to use > delete-old for something it was not designed for (and I should discuss > somewhere else to install the files I talked about even if the > corresponding option is specified). > > Bye, > Alexander. ~2 months ago I've opened a thread called: Deinstalling parts of base Take a look here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=17860 Domagoj _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
