upgrade from OLD -> NEW release

[Dominique Goncalves]

On 5/23/06, Albert Shih <shih at math.jussieu.fr> wrote:
>  Le 22/05/2006 à 19:27:47+0200, Dominique Goncalves a écrit
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 5/22/06, Albert Shih <shih at math.jussieu.fr> wrote:
> > >Hi all
> > >
> > >>From many time I make the upgrade my FreeBSD by using :
> > >
> > >        make -DNO_PROFILE buildowlrd
> > >        make buildkernel
> > >        make installkernel
> > >        reboot/single
> > >        make -DNO_PROFILE installworld
> > >        mergemaster
> > >        reboot
> > >
> > >Well everything work fine..but I always have some old file in /lib and
> > >/usr/lib
> > >
> > >Can I destroy him without problem ?
> >
> > There are news targets that can help you since FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE:
> > check-old, delete-old and delete-old-libs
> >
> > [dom at djdomics /usr/src]$ make check-old
> > >>>Checking for old files
> > >>>Checking for old libraries
> > >>>Checking for old directories
> > To remove old files and directories run 'make delete-old'.
> > To remove old libraries run 'make delete-old-libs'.
> >
> > HTH
>
> Of course that help. Lots of thanks.
>
> and on old release (because I've lots of 5.x --> 6.x but I've also lots of
> 4.x --> 5.x) are the some things like that ?

AFAIK, unfortunately only since 6.1-RELEASE according to
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/ObsoleteFiles.inc?f=u&only_with_tag=RELENG_6_1&logsort=date


> Thanks again.
>
> Regards.
> --
> Albert SHIH
> Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT)
> U.F.R. de Mathematiques.
> 7 ième étage, plateau D, bureau 10
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> Tue May 23 01:16:33 CEST 2006
>

Regards.

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