base system: remnant old files not covered by "make delete-old-files"

[O. Hartmann]

Am 12/26/12 12:58, schrieb Sergey Kandaurov:
> On 26 December 2012 15:49, O. Hartmann <ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>> I figured out that my system is somekind of "polluted" by remnant old files.
>>
>> I do installworld on a regular basis and I do it like suggested in the
>> handbook. I also regularyly do make delete-old-XXX in /usr/src.
>>
>> Well, now I figured out that there are some remnants in several system
>> folders, for instance
>>
>> /usr/bin/ncplogout
>> /usr/bin/ncplist (and some more, but last updated Oct, 17th)
>>
>> or
>>
>> /usr/bin/smbutil
>>
>> or
>>
>> /usr/sbin/mount_nwfs
>> /usr/sbin/mount_portalfs
>> /usr/sbin/mount_smbfs (last update around the 16. Oktober)
>>
>> or
>>
>>
>> /sbin/mount_ntfs
>>
>> Is this by intention or ist this an accident?
>>
>> I guess the binaries will by out of sync with the kernel if they remain
>> unchanged.
>>
> 
> This is an intentional leftover from
> http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/241629
> 
> On 17.10.12 20:50, Attilio Rao wrote:
> "For the moment we should not move the files yet into
> ObsoleteFiles.inc. This is done because all the FS removed code will
> make it into ObsoleteFiles.inc into a separate pass, in 3-4 months,
> giving people time to possibly fix and re-link a filesystem."
> 


ah, I see. So removing those files manually will not harm the system if
those filesystems were never used ina any way?


Oliver

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