On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 06:44:32PM +1000, Joshua Goodall wrote: > On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 06:44:19AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > I do this a lot too. And I use "find . -mtime +1 ! -type d" to > > seek for the stale stuff. This of course requires that you're > > not running with ``INSTALL="install -C"'' in /etc/make.conf. > > Is there any part of installworld that uses tools other than > rm, mtree, install and ln? > Sure, a lot of. We use all tools that are copied into the ${INSTALLTMP} as the first step of installworld. > With appropriate wrappers, it shouldn't be hard to maintain > a canonical list of installed files; it's not far from there > to detection of stale base files. > No, this is not as easy as it may seem at a glance. Some files are only installed if the destination does not yet exist, and there you are going to have a problem with this approarch. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru_at_sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru_at_FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age
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