Re: Of /var/db/entropy-file and booting kernels

2020-05-07 Thread Eric S. Hvozda
> On May 7, 2020, at 11:34 AM, Martin Husemann wrote: > > It should do everything correctly, nothing special needed for 9.0 or newer. Confirmed. I was also able to roll my own with LVM. Having a writable /dev on arm64 really helps :D

Re: library cleanup after a system upgrade

2020-05-07 Thread Greg Troxel
Riccardo Mottola writes: > I would check if the .so.x file has a corresponding symlink, if it has, > it is latest version, else it is old. That's not true. There is a symlink e.g. from .so.1 to .so.1.1. Maybe you mean "the libfoo.so symlink does not point to it". In general deleting these has

Re: Of /var/db/entropy-file and booting kernels

2020-05-07 Thread Martin Husemann
On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 10:58:03AM -0400, Eric S. Hvozda wrote: > Do you still need to handcraft the partitioning as suggested in > https://wiki.netbsd.org/users/spz/moderndisk/ or does sysinst do the > correct things as of v9.0? It should do everything correctly, nothing special needed for 9.0 or

Re: library cleanup after a system upgrade

2020-05-07 Thread Martin Husemann
On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 06:04:25PM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > this is quit clear and makes sense to me. I wondered if there existed a > ready script for 2) to share... > > I would check if the .so.x file has a corresponding symlink, if it has, > it is latest version, else it is old. That is

Re: Of /var/db/entropy-file and booting kernels

2020-05-07 Thread Eric S. Hvozda
 >> On May 7, 2020, at 4:26 AM, Martin Husemann wrote: >> >> On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 05:55:08PM -0400, Eric S. Hvozda wrote: >> It is know what installing boot blocks on the devices to supporting a >> raid set with GPT is useless (i.e. does not work due to lack of >> support) > > Missing conte

Re: library cleanup after a system upgrade

2020-05-07 Thread Christos Zoulas
In article <20200506223952.hyjgwirjwfddd...@pumpkin.pr0.tips>, Timo Buhrmester wrote: >> What happens to the "old libraries" ? I think they are left in so >> binaries continue to run. >> Just the new ones are symlinked to current. > >Some get removed with postinstall obsolete, some don't. I've n

Re: library cleanup after a system upgrade

2020-05-07 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Martin, Martin Husemann wrote: > There are multiple cases and they are treated differently: > > 1) there were neither major nor minor version changes between the releases > -> the library is overwritten with the new version during the update > 2) the major version was bumped > ->

Re: library cleanup after a system upgrade

2020-05-07 Thread Valery Ushakov
Martin Husemann wrote: > 2) the major version was bumped > -> new version is installed, old version stays around as 3rd party >software in your installation could still refer to it. >There are scripts for finding all references and actually >obsolete

Re: library cleanup after a system upgrade

2020-05-07 Thread Greg Troxel
Martin Husemann writes: > On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 12:39:53AM +0200, Timo Buhrmester wrote: >> > What happens to the "old libraries" ? I think they are left in so >> > binaries continue to run. >> > Just the new ones are symlinked to current. >> >> Some get removed with postinstall obsolete, some

PERL vars

2020-05-07 Thread Todd Gruhn
I am trying to re-implement a large PERL prog I wrote about 10yrs ago. It has custom vars that you can set in a *rc file. IS THERE a way to track these vars down, and set them in the config file?

Re: library cleanup after a system upgrade

2020-05-07 Thread Martin Husemann
On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 12:39:53AM +0200, Timo Buhrmester wrote: > > What happens to the "old libraries" ? I think they are left in so > > binaries continue to run. > > Just the new ones are symlinked to current. > > Some get removed with postinstall obsolete, some don't. There are multiple cases

Re: Of /var/db/entropy-file and booting kernels

2020-05-07 Thread Martin Husemann
On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 05:55:08PM -0400, Eric S. Hvozda wrote: > It is know what installing boot blocks on the devices to supporting a > raid set with GPT is useless (i.e. does not work due to lack of > support) Missing context here. What machine are you trying to boot and what NetBSD version? O

Linux Skype on NetBSD

2020-05-07 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi All, Did anybody try on NetBSD 9.0 and amd64 SkypeForLinux ? Does it run with linux compatibility with access to audio & video? just wondering, since it is quite usable on a semi-decent laptop running Devuan, but I know therewere pulseaudio problems etc etc in the past. Riccardo