Re: old cruft after source upgrading --- clean install?

2009-01-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Novembre writes: > By 'orphan' do you mean the unreferenced libraries that libchk has found on > my machine? I mean it more loosely than that; I mean libraries that are really not needed anymore. Your use of libchk isn't really a guarantee that you can remove the library safely, although it wil

Re: old cruft after source upgrading --- clean install?

2009-01-22 Thread Mel
On Thursday 22 January 2009 14:41:30 Novembre wrote: > Also, what are all these unreferenced libraries (according to libchk) doing > on my machine (see the > previous post)? Unreferenced can mean "no program or other library uses this library", but can also mean "libchk was unable to find a prog

Re: old cruft after source upgrading --- clean install?

2009-01-22 Thread Novembre
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Lowell Gilbert < freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > Novembre writes: > > > I have a system which was updated from 6.3-RELEASE to 7.0-RELEASE some > > eight months ago via a source upgrade. After that, I rebuilt all the > > packages on the system as

Re: old cruft after source upgrading --- clean install?

2009-01-22 Thread Novembre
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Robert Huff wrote: > > Novembre writes: > > > I have a system which was updated from 6.3-RELEASE to 7.0-RELEASE > > some eight months ago via a source upgrade. After that, I rebuilt > > all the packages on the system as well. Now, I would like to > > update it

Re: old cruft after source upgrading --- clean install?

2009-01-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Novembre writes: > I have a system which was updated from 6.3-RELEASE to 7.0-RELEASE some > eight months ago via a source upgrade. After that, I rebuilt all the > packages on the system as well. Now, I would like to update it again > to 7.1-RELEASE, and I'm wondering whether I should do a clean i

old cruft after source upgrading --- clean install?

2009-01-21 Thread Robert Huff
Novembre writes: > I have a system which was updated from 6.3-RELEASE to 7.0-RELEASE > some eight months ago via a source upgrade. After that, I rebuilt > all the packages on the system as well. Now, I would like to > update it again to 7.1-RELEASE, and I'm wondering whether I > should do a

old cruft after source upgrading --- clean install?

2009-01-21 Thread Novembre
Hi all, I have a system which was updated from 6.3-RELEASE to 7.0-RELEASE some eight months ago via a source upgrade. After that, I rebuilt all the packages on the system as well. Now, I would like to update it again to 7.1-RELEASE, and I'm wondering whether I should do a clean install or just do