On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 01:22:35PM +0000, Alistair Sutton wrote: > On 09/11/05, Richard Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've been continuously upgrading my machine from (I think) RELEASE-4.8, > > and I'm beginning to see lots of cruft from older releases accumulating. > > What are the list's feelings on deleting the majority of files listed > > by: > > > > find / /usr -xdev -mtime +7 > > > > There are plenty there that I created or belong the packages e.g. > > /etc/mail/$HOSTNAME.mc and /etc/X11/XFConfig > > > > but what about, for example: > > > > /etc/netconfig > > /etc/pam.d/ftpd > > /etc/periodic/daily/100.clean-disks > > /etc/amd.map > > /sbin/ip6fw > > /sbin/ilmid > > /lib/libdevstat.so.4 > > /lib/libutil.so.4 > > /rescue/ipmon > > > > Obviously dollops of common sense are needed, but has anyone attempted > > to formalize this type spring cleaning? > > There is something that was committed to -CURRENT a month or so ago > that will delete out-of-date files but I can't remember what the name > of it is.
'make delete-old' and 'make delete-old-libs'. > I'm sure it'll get MFCed from -CURRENT at some point once it becomes > more stable. It's not too hard to back-port it yourself (e.g. if you're using 6.0 you can just cvs update the /usr/src/Makefile* and ObsoleteFiles.inc). This won't work after the first 6.0 file is removed from -CURRENT, and on't try it on anything before 6.0, obviously! Kris
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