On Tuesday, November 4, 2014, Nick Holland <n...@holland-consulting.net> wrote:
> On 11/04/14 16:18, David Higgs wrote: > > While the upgrade process is so painless that I often forgot the > > #RmFiles steps, I may have found some omissions in past releases... > > > > The 5.2 => 5.3 upgrade is the last one that removed this directory: > > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/*-unknown-openbsd5.x > > > > I haven't seen any upgrades that removed these directories either: > > /usr/include/g++/*-unknown-openbsd5.x > > /usr/libdata/perl5/site_perl/*-openbsd/g++/*-unknown-openbsd5.x > > > > Is or was there any reason to keep these around, or was this intentional? > > > > --david > > There's no reason to keep them around, but no real reason to get excited > about removing them, either. If there is something that will CAUSE > PROBLEMS, hopefully it ends up on current.html, and I'll incorporate it > into upgradexx.html, but the rest is mostly cosmetic. > > There are gobs of library files and other things that get left behind on > an upgrade that really aren't an issue. The deletion list this time > around was too long as it is. If you want to look for files that are > older than the upgrade you just did, go for it, but I suspect you have > better uses of your time. > No doubt. There was just other chatter about file removal which tickled my memory about the gcc-lib directory. It's probably safe to assume this isn't automated so as not to break packages prior to pkg_add -u or manually installed things. If they start annoying me and I can't figure out the magic find(1) incantation, I'll just reinstall and call it a day. Sorry for the noise, and thanks for another great release. --david
