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

[O. Hartmann]

Am 12/26/12 19:05, schrieb Kimmo Paasiala:
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 6:20 PM, O. Hartmann
> <ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>> 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
>>
> 
> You can see which binaries in
> /bin,/sbin,/usr/bin,/usr/sbin,/libexec,/usr/libexec are obsolete by
> doing 'make installworld DESTDIR=/some/directory' and comparing your
> installed binaries against the directory tree you just created at
> /some/directory.
> 
> -Kimmo


I simply check the timestamp.

Oliver












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