freebsd-update and lib32

[Andreas Nilsson]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Marko Cupać <marko.cupac at mimar.rs> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> for years I've been leaving default 'lib32' option during initial
> install of FreeBSD selected, but now I am experimenting with a server
> which will be 64-bit only.
>
> I have noticed that, after initial install of FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE
> without lib32 selected, /usr/lib32 folder is created nevertheless,
> containing 3 empty dirs: dtrace, i18n and private. However, running
> freebsd-update on such system pulls a bunch of files into /usr/lib32
> and its subdirs while updating to FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p5.
>
> freebsd-update lists what it thinks you have installed, so if it lists
lib32 it will be populated. The detection of what is installed is sometimes
not good enough, so then one has to specify dists in
/etc/freebsd-update.conf

Are those files really necessary on 64-bit only system?
>
> Thank you in advance.
> --
> Marko Cupać
> https://www.mimar.rs


Best regards
Andreas