Re: How to clean out old files after 'make world'?

From: Max Laier (max_at_love2party.net)
Date: 07/30/04

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    To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 11:17:25 +0200

    On Friday 30 July 2004 08:56, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
    > On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 10:23:25PM +0300, Stas D.Myasnikov wrote:
    > > Hello!
    > >
    > > While doing 'make world' I used make.conf with couple on 'NO_*=yes',
    > > e.g. NO_KERBEROS=yes (I don't need Kerberos on my home computer). But
    > > after rebuilding world and install I saw the old binaries, configs,
    > > etc. of Kerberos and other parts of base that I didn't build. I had
    > > thought that install script removes all unneeded files, but it don't.
    > > How can I clean out this old binaries, configs, etc?.. Is there any
    > > automatic way to do this?
    >
    > I routinely use find(1) and some secret knowledge about files that
    > do not change their timestamps between installworlds to clean up
    > stale files. Fortunately there are not too much files that install
    > with -C, less in 5.x than in 4.x.
    >
    > Also, Warner Losh worked on a project that would allow to remove
    > files obsoleted between releases. I don't know what the current
    > status of this project is, or if it's still alive. ;)

    I am wondering, would it be possible to (automatically) create pkg-plist info
    for the NO_* targets in make.conf? We could put that into the ports-tree
    somewhere and if you'd like to remove something completely you can install
    the dummy port & pkg-plist and use pkg_delete to clean up.

    It seems to me that it might be possible to add some kind of Makefile hint
    variables (i.e. define a variable in Makefiles/targets that depend on NO_*)
    that'd help to generate filelists for the NO_* targets. If this is the case
    it should be possible to place pkg descriptions into /var/db/pkg during the
    installworld pass. This would also make it easy to get rid of things after a
    CDROM install.

    What do you think? 

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