Re: Problem with left over files from earlier releases

Reply: Yuri : "Re: Problem with left over files from earlier releases"
Reply: Arthur Chance : "Re: Problem with left over files from earlier releases"
In reply to: Yuri : "Re: Problem with left over files from earlier releases"
Go to: [ bottom of page ] [ top of archives ] [ this month ]

From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2_at_milibyte.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2023 11:34:01 UTC

On Wednesday, 19 April 2023 11:58:00 BST Yuri wrote:
> Mike Clarke wrote:

<snip>

> > It looks like seven year old /usr/lib/libelf.so.1 is left over from an
> > old version. Booting from a memstick image confirms there is no
> > /usr/lib/libelf.so.1 in 'out of the box' FreeBSD 13.1 so I deleted it
> > and both programs worked. But this makes me wonder how many redundant
> > old files might be lying around in the base system and potentially
> > causing problems. Is there any easy way to track these down other than
> > doing a fresh install from scratch? Since I'm intending to upgrade to
> > 13.2 soon this could be a good time to see if there's more redundant
> > stuff to clean out.
> 
> If you are using source upgrades, check list-old* and delete-old*
> targets in /usr/src/Makefile.

I usually use freebsd-update but it might be worth going back to updating from source 
this time.

-- 
Mike Clarke