Re: Cleaning system's old ibraries/files after update to next -release or -current

2020-07-15 Thread Stuart Henderson
>> My take is to purge old libs after every new release. Once, I had to do >> it in the middle of a version upgrade, because there was no space left >> on disk to complete it. My fault only, I had a very tight custom >> partitioning layout. > > I don't think it's that easy. One case it comes to

Re: Cleaning system's old ibraries/files after update to next -release or -current

2020-07-15 Thread Uwe Werler
On 14 Jul 15:44, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2020-07-14, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > Old versions of libraries are innocuous. They will simply be > > ignored. > > Until you run out of disk space, which is fairly easy in /usr if you > installed a couple of releases ago and took the auto

Re: Cleaning system's old ibraries/files after update to next -release or -current

2020-07-15 Thread Omar Polo
Dumitru Moldovan writes: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 03:44:18PM -, Stuart Henderson wrote: >>On 2020-07-14, Christian Weisgerber wrote: >>> Old versions of libraries are innocuous. They will simply be >>> ignored. >> >>Until you run out of disk space, which is fairly easy in /usr if you

Re: Cleaning system's old ibraries/files after update to next -release or -current

2020-07-15 Thread Dumitru Moldovan
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 03:44:18PM -, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2020-07-14, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Old versions of libraries are innocuous. They will simply be ignored. Until you run out of disk space, which is fairly easy in /usr if you installed a couple of releases ago and took

Re: Cleaning system's old ibraries/files after update to next -release or -current

2020-07-14 Thread Ottavio Caruso
On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 at 13:44, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > > Hi, > > Martin wrote on Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 11:11:34AM +: > > > After system update I found lots of 'old' libraries versions > > and possibly binaries from previous releases. > > > > Does anybody know an automated method to remove it

Re: Cleaning system's old ibraries/files after update to next -release or -current

2020-07-14 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2020-07-14, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Old versions of libraries are innocuous. They will simply be > ignored. Until you run out of disk space, which is fairly easy in /usr if you installed a couple of releases ago and took the auto disklabel defaults.

Cleaning system's old ibraries/files after update to next -release or -current

2020-07-14 Thread Martin
After system update I found lots of 'old' libraries versions and possibly binaries from previous releases. Does anybody know an automated method to remove it after update? For instance previous libs before update to -current. Martin

Re: Cleaning system's old ibraries/files after update to next -release or -current

2020-07-14 Thread Christian Weisgerber
On 2020-07-14, Ottavio Caruso wrote: >> > After system update I found lots of 'old' libraries versions >> > and possibly binaries from previous releases. >> >> If you need to ask, just don't remove them. Those files eat no bread, >> and in some situations, some of the libs may still be in use.

Re: Cleaning system's old ibraries/files after update to next -release or -current

2020-07-14 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Ottavio, Ottavio Caruso wrote on Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 02:28:25PM +0100: > On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 at 13:44, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> Martin wrote on Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 11:11:34AM +: >>> After system update I found lots of 'old' libraries versions >>> and possibly binaries from previous

Re: Cleaning system's old ibraries/files after update to next -release or -current

2020-07-14 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi, Martin wrote on Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 11:11:34AM +: > After system update I found lots of 'old' libraries versions > and possibly binaries from previous releases. > > Does anybody know an automated method to remove it after update? > For instance previous libs before update to -current.

Re: Cleaning system's old ibraries/files after update to next -release or -current

2020-07-14 Thread Zé Loff
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 11:11:34AM +, Martin wrote: > After system update I found lots of 'old' libraries versions and > possibly binaries from previous releases. > > Does anybody know an automated method to remove it after update? For > instance previous libs before update to -current. >