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On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 02:19:18PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>=20
> Well, not really, at least not unless you start your upgrade with wiping
> out everything (eg. "rm -rf /usr/X11R6").  But you probably don't want
> to do that unless you plan to re-build all your packages too, in which
> case having all the ones that use X11 libraries installed /usr/X11R6
> might actually make the upgrade easier than not having them there! ;-)
> (if an X11 shared library binary interface used by some package were to
> change in the new release then you can't remove the old libraries....)
>=20
> Until "system packages" are in vogue there's no way to properly and
> safely delete old files that are no longer present in a new release of
> the base software (outside of whatever incomplete hacks are present in
> sysinst, if you were to use sysinst), regardless of whether they're
> mixed in with 3rd-party package files or not (last-modified timestamps
> work for most binaries, but not so well for data files, docs, and
> scripts, etc., i.e. things not modified by the build process).
>=20

You can always tarup your current X11R6, then remove it and install the
new version. If you notice some library missing, you can restore it from
your backup... This way you will avoid some stale libraries and old
files. Am I wrong?

Thanks.

>=20
> --=20
> 								Greg A. Woods
>=20
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--=20
Of course it runs NetBSD - http://www.netbsd.org
Netiquete (spanish): http://www.seei.es/netiquet.htm

Julio Merino <slink@unixbsd.org> #18961975

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