Improve OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc
Warren Block
wblock at wonkity.com
Tue Oct 5 22:46:56 UTC 2010
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>
> We do not have a target which allows to go to src/bin/XXX and run "make
> deinstall" or similar. What is correctly written in this thread is that "make
> check-old" and "make delete-old" (and "make delete-old-libs") is supposed to
> do what you want (given that there is already support in the src to exclude
> this part of FreeBSD during installation). The most up-to-date version is in
> -current, I do not know about the stable branches (I do not monitor if people
> which change the corresponding file have merged the changes to stable
> branches or not).
>
> What may not be 100% correct in src is the list of files to delete (= a bug).
> For this the suggestion in the thread is also correct, if there is something
> which does not work please send a PR.
This would be more accurate and require less maintenance if
OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc were auto-generated ala genplist. Don't know
if that's practical, just wanted to suggest it.
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