On Tuesday 22 June 2004 10:23, Stephan van Beerschoten wrote: > As I realise this is a nice and way too broad subject, I do have a > question regarding the maintenance of -CURRENT systems in particular. > > We see libraries being renewer, bumped up, build and eventually > installed during many -CURRENT buildworlds and installworlds and the > same goes for contributed parts of the base system like gdb (recent > example) and perl and lots lots more. > > Is there a 'best practice' for getting rid of leftover 'old stuff': libs > binaries and files as well as (just for example) any updated perl or any > old doc files? Reinstalling from the latest CURRENT release, then restoring the rest from packages or so. I think that's the best and fastest way to clean up after, say, a year. Unless hardware rot comes to you sooner of course :) DanReceived on Tue Jun 22 2004 - 22:15:42 UTC
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