Cleaning obsolete files after make installworld

Luís Fernando Schultz Xavier da Silveira schultz at ime.usp.br
Sun Dec 13 00:12:54 UTC 2015


Hello,

> Check out the /usr/src/Makefile, particularly the # check-old and the # 
> delete-old sections. I've never found a need to use these, so I really am 
> uncertain how they would be used. But it seems as if they might come into 
> play after a make buildworld but prior to a make installworld. I could be 
> very wrong about that. But if you can track down how to actually use these 
> targets I think it may remedy the problem.

I did use the delete-old functionality. The problem is the files persist
even after that.

The delete-old command does not seem to take into account software that
was disabled in /etc/src.conf and needs to be removed.




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