Re: Problem with left over files from earlier releases

Mike Clarke wrote:
> On Wednesday, 19 April 2023 11:58:00 BST Yuri wrote:
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>> Mike Clarke wrote:
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>> > It looks like seven year old /usr/lib/libelf.so.1 is left over from an
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>> > old version. Booting from a memstick image confirms there is no
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>> > /usr/lib/libelf.so.1 in 'out of the box' FreeBSD 13.1 so I deleted it
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>> > and both programs worked. But this makes me wonder how many redundant
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>> > old files might be lying around in the base system and potentially
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>> > causing problems. Is there any easy way to track these down other than
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>> > doing a fresh install from scratch? Since I'm intending to upgrade to
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>> > 13.2 soon this could be a good time to see if there's more redundant
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>> > stuff to clean out.
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>> If you are using source upgrades, check list-old* and delete-old*
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>> targets in /usr/src/Makefile.
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> I usually use freebsd-update but it might be worth going back to
> updating from source this time.

If you have src installed, and it IS up to date with currently running
release, you could try using those targets anyway.

OTOH, I don't know if freebsd-update is supposed to take care of
obsolete files/directories.