Order of canonical upgrade sequence

[Chris Rees]

On 30 May 2013 14:42, Steve Wills <steve at mouf.net> wrote:
> On 05/29/13 16:02, Chris Rees wrote:
>> Hi all!
>>
>> Back in 2005, when Alexander Leidinger wrote the make delete-old
>> target, he documented the order of upgrade such that it should be run
>> before mergemaster [1];
>>
>> #  7.  `make installworld'
>> #  8.  `make delete-old'
>> #  9.  `mergemaster'
>>
>
> It would be good to mention that it's wise to "make check-old", and
> rebuilding any ports that depend on the old libs, before doing "make
> delete-old".

make delete-old doesn't touch the libraries; it's the next steps that
do that (make delete-old-libs).

The Handbook section is far more verbose on this, and I think that
this reference in the Makefile is more as a quick reminder than a
step-by-step walkthrough.

Chris