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

From: Colin Percival (colin.percival_at_wadham.ox.ac.uk)
Date: 07/30/04

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    Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 02:36:36 -0700
To: Max Laier <max@love2party.net>

    At 02:17 30/07/2004, Max Laier wrote:
    >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.

    In March, I posted to freebsd-current (subject: Nuking parts of the world)
    offering a patch which makes it possible to remove some subsystems:

    http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?6.0.1.1.1.20040316023919.039fa5f0

    Colin Percival

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