looks like success

[John Nielsen]

On Monday 03 March 2008 12:45:31 pm John Nielsen wrote:
> On Sunday 02 March 2008 03:50:43 am Daniel Gerzo wrote:
> > Hello B.,
> >
> > Thursday, February 28, 2008, 9:27:03 PM, you wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > make delete-old (took a long time to do by hand)
> > > and make delete-old-libs (went rather quickly)
> >
> > if you really want to delete all things:
> >
> > # yes | make delete-old
>
> While I've seen this suggestion before (and it's a very unix-y way to
> do it), the "canonical" method (from build(7)) is to run
>  make -DBATCH_DELETE_OLD_FILES delete-old
>
> What I'd like to see (although I realize this isn't the correct
> forum..) is a make target that produces a list of files that _would_ be
> deleted, which the admin could then review and approve all or remove
> individual files to be preserved. But until I turn this into a useful
> PR or a nice request on a different list just consider it a rant. :)

Heh.. I didn't read the manpage I just referred to closely enough. There's 
a check-old (and a check-old-libs) target that makes just such a list.

JN