Re: "Maintaining your installation" question
From: Danny Pansters (danny_at_ricin.com)
Date: 06/23/04
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To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 02:15:34 +0200
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 10:23, Stephan van Beerschoten wrote:
> As I realise this is a nice and way too broad subject, I do have a
> question regarding the maintenance of -CURRENT systems in particular.
>
> We see libraries being renewer, bumped up, build and eventually
> installed during many -CURRENT buildworlds and installworlds and the
> same goes for contributed parts of the base system like gdb (recent
> example) and perl and lots lots more.
>
> Is there a 'best practice' for getting rid of leftover 'old stuff': libs
> binaries and files as well as (just for example) any updated perl or any
> old doc files?
Reinstalling from the latest CURRENT release, then restoring the rest from
packages or so. I think that's the best and fastest way to clean up after,
say, a year. Unless hardware rot comes to you sooner of course :)
Dan
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