careless commits disrupt
Julian H. Stacey
jhs at berklix.com
Mon Oct 22 21:09:43 UTC 2018
Hi, Reference:
> From: Stefan Esser <se at freebsd.org>
> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 11:44:59 +0200
Stefan Esser wrote:
> Am 12.10.18 um 07:39 schrieb Dag-Erling Sm�rgrav:
> > Julian H. Stacey <jhs at berklix.com> writes:
> >> Stefan Esser <se at freebsd.org> writes:
> >>> You should also delete old files:
> >>>
> >>> cd /usr/src
> >>> make delete-old
> >>> make delete-old-libs
> >> I just ran that. It deleted lots of stuff. & I'd only run it 2 days ago.
> >> I should have run it just before buildworld though.
> >> It's not suggested in the top of
> >> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
> >> just at base of page.
> >
> > That's because you should *never* run delete-old or delete-old-libs from
> > a source tree that is newer than your installed system. It may delete
> > files which have been obsoleted by changes you haven't yet built and
> > installed, to the point where you may be unable to build and install
> > those changes. In this particular case, it will, at the very least,
> > break ssh and svn / svnlite.
>
> Yes, sorry, running make delete-old-libs before buildworld is no good
> idea, unless the old libraries have been copied to /usr/lib/compat before.
>
>
> The advice to run "make delete-old-libs" came from the following message
> from Glen Barber:
>
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2018-October/071581.html
>
> But the advice was not to delete old files before make buildworld, but only
> before starting the required port upgrades ...
>
>
> I might have mentioned, that I always preserve old shared libraries in
> /usr/lib/compat before running "make delete-old-libs".
Good idea, are you doing that manually, or do you have a patch to share ?
> This allows to run
> old binaries, but prevents linking of new binaries against these libraries
> (should not matter for make buildworld, but for building ports, which I do
> at in the same script that invokes buildworld for critical kernel modules
> that are to be built from ports).
>
> No binary or library should reference a library whose path contains
> /compat/ after all upgrades have been performed, obviously ...
>
> Regards, STefan
Cheers,
Julian
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