On Monday 03 March 2008 12:45:31 pm John Nielsen wrote: > On Sunday 02 March 2008 03:50:43 am Daniel Gerzo wrote: > > Hello B., > > > > Thursday, February 28, 2008, 9:27:03 PM, you wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > make delete-old (took a long time to do by hand) > > > and make delete-old-libs (went rather quickly) > > > > if you really want to delete all things: > > > > # yes | make delete-old > > While I've seen this suggestion before (and it's a very unix-y way to > do it), the "canonical" method (from build(7)) is to run > make -DBATCH_DELETE_OLD_FILES delete-old > > What I'd like to see (although I realize this isn't the correct > forum..) is a make target that produces a list of files that _would_ be > deleted, which the admin could then review and approve all or remove > individual files to be preserved. But until I turn this into a useful > PR or a nice request on a different list just consider it a rant. :)
Heh.. I didn't read the manpage I just referred to closely enough. There's a check-old (and a check-old-libs) target that makes just such a list. JN _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"