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Re: install/45335: postinstall: obsolete libs: use distribution sets



The following reply was made to PR install/45335; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Martin S. Weber" <Ephaeton%gmx.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/45335: postinstall: obsolete libs: use distribution sets
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:24:58 -0500

 Wouldn't it be nice to have this fixed in the NetBSD-6 distribution? You are
 talking about major lib bumps for NetBSD-7, so this is another catastrophe
 waiting to happen to anybody who will have NetBSD-6 installed, try -current
 to evaluate a bugfix, hardware driver, software feature or whatever and then
 decides to go back to the latest release...
 
 IMO, for NetBSD controlled directories (i.e. /lib, /usr/lib) deleting 
 everything which isn't in the distribution's mtrees should be fine, shouldn't
 it? Thus mtree -r for the specific library directories could be a fine and
 workable fix for the postinstall 'obsolete library' fix step.
 
 Regards,
 -Martin
 


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