OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc completeness improvement, try 2

[Garrett Cooper]

On Jan 23, 2015, at 16:29, Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Some years ago I've started a project of improving
> OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc completeness, which allows make delete-old
> / delete-old-libs / delete-old-dirs targets completelty remove files
> which are normally installed when specific src.conf WITHOUT_* knobs
> are set.
> 
> In other words, if a user has some WITHOUT_* set in src.conf,
> specific files are not installed by installworld, but not removed
> by remove-old, which I try to fix.
> 
> In yet other words, I want to make it so `make installworld
> -DWITHOUT_foo=yes` and `make installworld && make delete-old
> -DWITHOUT_foo=yes` result in the very same file sets.
> 
> Though the project seems to be useful and have real demand (added
> to IdeasPage by netchild@, though removed later by brooks@ [1])
> and interest ([2]), the change was ignored back then and now the
> patch is completely rotten. I can redo it, but I need a reviewer.
> Here's a first small part of the patch:
> 
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1600
> 
> The WIP branch with other changes is [3]
> 
> Also there is a question of delete-old-dirs removing directories
> which are created by mtree run by installworld unconditionally.
> This seems to be incorrect - either directories should be installed
> conditionally or not removed by delete-old-dirs. My patch will
> address this issue as well, by not remiving unconditionally installed
> dirs.
> 
> [1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/action/diff/IdeasPage?action=diff&rev1=260&rev2=261
> [2] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168341#c6
> [3] https://github.com/AMDmi3/freebsd/compare/obsolete-files

Hi Dmitry,
	Seems like we’ve duplicated work a bit. Have you looked at ^/projects/building-blocks yet ?
Thanks!
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