Re: Old /usr/bin/* files (and more) still around on modern main, long updated via pkgbase: looks like having FreeBSD-src installed and doing make check-old and the like are appropriate?

Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> writes:
> On a upstream pkgbase system (pkgbase'd for a long time) I typed a
> command, expecting the file to not be found:. But I got a command
> from/for x86_64-unknown-freebsd15.0 .
> 
> # llc --version
> LLVM (http://llvm.org/):
>   LLVM version 19.1.5
>   Optimized build.

We've never shipped llc as part of the default install, so this shows
this system was previously maintained from source using non-standard
build options.

> That leads me to wonder what else is old that is still around.  So,
> based on having the matching FreeBSD-src installed: [...]

pkgbase does not leave old files around.  These files were there before
you converted.

> Did I miss some sort of documented cleanup step?

Yes, back when you were maintaining this system from source, you should
have run `make delete-old` and `make delete-old-libs` regularly.  You
also shouldn't have converted to pkgbase using packages built with
different options than what you'd been using previously.  You should
have simply done a last buildworld + buildkernel with the same options,
then run `make update-packages` and installed the result.

DES
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