2011/9/8 David Wolfskill <david_at_catwhisker.org>: > On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 05:12:45PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> ... >> I am particularly concerned with things like header files >> (/usr/include) that might bite me if not deleted. > > This isn't specific to that upgrade, but when I do a "make installworld", > I augment the instructions from UPDATING, prefixing the "make > installworld" itself with: > > rm -fr /usr/include.old && mv /usr/include{,.old} && \ > rm -fr /usr/share/man > > Thus, I have reasonable confidence that the newly-installed world has no > significant "pollution" from the old world, at least in /usr/include and > /usr/share/man. (Libraries are a different matter -- and addressed > differently.) # cd /usr/src # make delete-old would be less hack-ish > Note, too, that a "standard" source upgrade has no provision for > updating /etc/localtime, in case that may be an issue. > > Peace, > david > -- > David H. Wolfskill david_at_catwhisker.org > Depriving a girl or boy of an opportunity for education is evil. > > See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. > -- Olivier Smedts _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) e-mail: olivier_at_gid0.org - against HTML email & vCards X www: http://www.gid0.org - against proprietary attachments / \ "Il y a seulement 10 sortes de gens dans le monde : ceux qui comprennent le binaire, et ceux qui ne le comprennent pas."Received on Thu Sep 08 2011 - 16:00:01 UTC
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