OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc completeness improvement, try 2
Dmitry Marakasov
amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru
Sat Jan 24 14:04:04 UTC 2015
* Garrett Cooper (yaneurabeya at gmail.com) wrote:
> >>> Hi Dmitry,
> >>> Seems like we’ve duplicated work a bit. Have you looked at ^/projects/building-blocks yet ?
> >>
> >> Hm, seems so, partly. How do you gather missing entries? My way is
> >> pretty dumb, I just do bunch of installworlds + delete-old's and add
> >> diff to the file, you probably do it more cleverly. Will committing
> >> my changes interfere with your work? If so, it may be better to direct
> >> them to your branch instead. Especially if you are more aware of knob
> >> combinations and their effects.
> >
> > I wrote this script to track what files get installed by directories:
> > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/projects/building-blocks/tools/add-optional-obsolete-files-entries.sh?revision=275238&view=markup . It’s not perfect (doesn’t work for “kitchen sink” directories like etc/ and share/…), but it’s a reasonable starting point for grabbing all of the files.
> >
> > I’m going to hold off on the rc.d deletions/rewrites for dependent services after I do more targeted review/testing, as it might screw up boot order in unexpected ways with services and programs that get run out of order, but I’m reasonably confident that the contents of the branch work.
> >
> > I was going to start cherry-picking changes from the branch this weekend.
>
> Forgot to respond on one important point: reviewing and committing the higher-level changes (make remove-old) shouldn’t be a problem, and I’ll be sure to commit the overlapping changes with OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc first to reduce the diff between our branches.
> Thanks!
Okay, the I'll just go on. Nice to know it's useful. Note that the
branch may have bugs as on the first run I just extend it, and it's
tested on another run, while run takes couple of days on the box I
use.
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