cvs commit: ports/net Makefile ports/net/bwi-firmware-kmod Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Sun May 17 01:42:37 UTC 2009


Scot Hetzel wrote:
> This shouldn't be flaged as an mtree error.  The reason that
> linker.hints was left behind is due to this file is generated by
> kldxref.  The port/package runs kldxref during the install of the
> firmware module to update the existing or create a linker.hints file,
> and when the package is removed, it runs kldxref again to clean up the
> linker.hints file to only contain the modules in /boot/modules.  It
> has no way to know if it is safe to remove this file.

Would it be safe to remove if it's empty?

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