Hi! I'm running a little pet project of improving completeness of tools/build/mk/OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc file and thus delete-old* targets with regard to all possible WITHOUT_* knobs.
E.g. when WITHOUT_foo is defined in src.conf, make delete-old should remove related files completely, to make a system look exactly like it's world was installed with that knob set. First of all, an automatic script to check for leftovers after delete-old for all possible knobs is available from [2]. Feel free to run in on different architectures and FreeBSD branches; I'm currently running it on amd64. I also think that it should be run during preparation of each FreeBSD release. There are some questions I'd like to discuss. 1) named config file var/named/etc/namedb/named.conf was intentionally left out from OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc, so I did the same for other configs which may be changed by users. Since this approach requires maintaining a whitelist of such files to ignore them in checking leftovers, I think it'd be better to introduce special variable for config files, e.g. OLD_CONFIGS and corresponding target, delete-old-configs, which will by default remove configs interactively, with an option to remove them in batch mode. 2) Is this ok to backport the list from current to stable branches? Pro - it's really simple, con - it will contain files never installed with this (old) branch. I also plan to make similar script for checking completeness of delete-old* targets for the case of system update. [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=misc/168341 [2] https://github.com/AMDmi3/obsolete-files-checker -- Dmitry Marakasov . 55B5 0596 FF1E 8D84 5F56 9510 D35A 80DD F9D2 F77D amd...@amdmi3.ru ..: jabber: amd...@jabber.ru http://www.amdmi3.ru _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
