freebsd-update and lib32

[Brandon Allbery]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Marko Cupać <marko.cupac at mimar.rs> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Are those files really necessary on 64-bit only system?
>

There was a glitch in production of 10.1-R that left lib32 mostly empty by
default, and -p1 attempted to fix it. I suspect both the original bug and
the fix ignored the lib32 setting.

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