Re: toolchain/52804: make postinstall obsoletelibs a separate thing?

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR toolchain/52804; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: NetBSD bugtracking <gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost>
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Subject: Re: toolchain/52804: make postinstall obsoletelibs a separate thing?
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 08:21:34 +0100

 On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 05:15:01AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
 > It occurred to me tonight while working on unborking a machine that
 > was running a mixture of 6.1 and 7.99.33 that it would be useful to be
 > able to run subsets of "postinstall fix obsolete", so as to allow
 > clearing away the bulk of the obsolete files while leaving dangerous
 > ones or suspect ones for closer analysis.
 > 
 > But I think it would be sufficient to just split the obsolete library
 > handling apart from the obsolete paths handling and make them separate
 > toplevel targets. As far as I know the downgrade hazards associated
 > with postinstall fix obsolete are limited to shared library images.
 
 Can you please expand what you want in more detail?
 AFAIK, postinstall fix does not delete old versions of libraries.
  Thomas