Re: base system: remnant old files not covered by "make

On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 6:20 PM, O. Hartmann
<ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Am 12/26/12 12:58, schrieb Sergey Kandaurov:
>> On 26 December 2012 15:49, O. Hartmann <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>>> I figured out that my system is somekind of "polluted" by remnant old files.
>>>
>>> I do installworld on a regular basis and I do it like suggested in the
>>> handbook. I also regularyly do make delete-old-XXX in /usr/src.
>>>
>>> Well, now I figured out that there are some remnants in several system
>>> folders, for instance
>>>
>>> /usr/bin/ncplogout
>>> /usr/bin/ncplist (and some more, but last updated Oct, 17th)
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>> /usr/bin/smbutil
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>> /usr/sbin/mount_nwfs
>>> /usr/sbin/mount_portalfs
>>> /usr/sbin/mount_smbfs (last update around the 16. Oktober)
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>>
>>> /sbin/mount_ntfs
>>>
>>> Is this by intention or ist this an accident?
>>>
>>> I guess the binaries will by out of sync with the kernel if they remain
>>> unchanged.
>>>
>>
>> This is an intentional leftover from
>> http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/241629
>>
>> On 17.10.12 20:50, Attilio Rao wrote:
>> "For the moment we should not move the files yet into
>> ObsoleteFiles.inc. This is done because all the FS removed code will
>> make it into ObsoleteFiles.inc into a separate pass, in 3-4 months,
>> giving people time to possibly fix and re-link a filesystem."
>>
>
>
> ah, I see. So removing those files manually will not harm the system if
> those filesystems were never used ina any way?
>
>
> Oliver
>

You can see which binaries in
/bin,/sbin,/usr/bin,/usr/sbin,/libexec,/usr/libexec are obsolete by
doing 'make installworld DESTDIR=/some/directory' and comparing your
installed binaries against the directory tree you just created at
/some/directory.

-Kimmo
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