base system: remnant old files not covered by "make delete-old-files"

Sergey Kandaurov pluknet at gmail.com
Wed Dec 26 11:58:43 UTC 2012


On 26 December 2012 15:49, O. Hartmann <ohartman at 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."

-- 
wbr,
pluknet


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