On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 09:52:19PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: > On 22 Oct Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 03:41:33PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: > > > On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:30:52 -0400 > > > Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > OK, thanks for this answer. I may be overreacting ;-) > Is it Ok to say that after *recompiling* each port with "portupgrade > -fa" on a 5.4 system updated to 6.0 old libraries will no be dangerous > in a way that they would be used any longer?
Yes. You can verify this with libchk. > Should I remove the compat-options from the kernel before or after the > recompilation of all ports? After you're sure nothing uses them any longer, or you'll have a partly broken system in the meantime. Kris
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