On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 13:29, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 10:45:41AM +0100, Paul Richards wrote: > > I think we should add a target to make world that checks for the > > existence of an old base install of Perl and removes it if it exists. > > > > As a general principle, if we do things like remove code during -current > > development then make world needs to cater for that change. The idea of > > make world is that what you get at the end of it is a pristine install > > of a snapshot of FreeBSD from the current branch. > > > > The bootstrap target was originally added for this purpose, to deal with > > issues during releases i.e. to bootstrap from one version of current to > > another. It's got misunderstood along the way to mean bootstrapping > > tools needed early in the build process. > > > > I'd like to resurrect it's original meaning and add code to clean out > > old versions of Perl. > > > I strongly object to this unless we clearly define the procedure of > deleting the old stuff like libraries, headers, programs, etc. > I routinely do the cleanup by installing the world into a separate > DESTDIR, and comparing it with what is available under /. I don't > see a major problem with this except maybe a space. Another approarch > is to compare the modification times with the current date; this > works almost ok for all things except headers and (now) static > libraries plus some miscellaneous stuff that is getting installed > with -C.
You need to catch up with the rest of this thread, since I think we're moving towards something more acceptable. However, in the particular case of Perl, I think it does highlight a slightly separate issue in that our build process has no concept of deprecating parts of the OS. The 'sysclean' target will "accidentally" deal with the Perl issue, but I don't think it's wrong to have a target remove a module that has been removed from source since that's what installing the system should really do if the system has opted to deprecate something. -- Paul Richards | FreeBSD Services Ltd | Order 4.6 on DVD now. http://www.freebsd-services.com | To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
