Re: /lib symlinks problem?

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 01:22:49AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20030901072017.GH30277_at_sunbay.com>
>             Ruslan Ermilov <ru_at_FreeBSD.org> writes:
> : On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 08:58:19AM +0200, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
> : > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 09:44:24AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> : > > I think that Gordon took a safe path with creating compatibility symlinks.
> : > > Besides, creating compatibility symlinks has a nicety of removing your
> : > > stale symlinks in /usr/lib.
> : > 
> : > I always asked myself whether there is a tool or some kind of
> : > database at which one can throw an existing installation and it
> : > knows about which files have to be there and where and which ain't
> : > to be there (like such symlink relicts), maybe a hook in install,cp,ln
> : > and what else is being used in the world install process. 
> : > That way it could tell me what files are candidates for deleting.
> : > 
> : Hold on, Warner is almost ready for an real solution here, I think.
> 
> My tool is initially just a 'delete these files' tool, but now that I
> think about it, it wouldn't be hard to say also 'create these
> symlinks'.  The hard part here is generating the 'obsolete' lists.
> 
But ``delete these files'' is what's actually needed here.  ;-)


Cheers,
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