6.0 release date and stability

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sat Oct 22 12:04:12 PDT 2005


On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 03:41:33PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:30:52 -0400
> Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> 
> > > But he old libraries are still on the system than, aren't they?
> > > Or will they not be used and if not, why?
> > 
> > Use libchk and pkg_which..see their manpages.
> 
> After looking into the manual(s) this seems to be a "dangerous" or at
> least not an easy operation. Can someone be a little more specific
> about how to remove old 4.x / 5.x libraries from a FreeBSD system?

That's the best there is for 6.0 (so run a full backup first).  7.0
has a 'make delete-old' target that removes known old files from your
base system.  I don't know if netchild has plans to backport it, but
you could ask him.

Kris
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