Re: Problem with left over files from earlier releases

On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 2:41 PM Yuri <yuri@aetern.org> wrote:

> Mike Clarke wrote:
> > 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.
>
> 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.
>

The final `freebsd-update install` after the reboot, or after rebuilding
all your packages, is supposed to take care of that, IIRC.


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