On 2002-11-23 10:36, Mark Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Apparently editors/vim-lite had picked up an old, obsolete libposix*.so
> > from one of the past installations and linked against that. Deleting
> > the port and reinstalling it worked like a charm, which made me think
> > a bit... Should we recommend in UPDATING that source upgrades include
> > something similar? Well, maybe not all the time (since ports can
> > break like vim did for me), but at least under a "making your /usr as
> > clean as possible" paragraph?
>
> I would support this, as long as it was not compulsory.
That's fair enough. I wasn't implying that everyone should do this,
all the time. How does the following footnote look?
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Index: UPDATING
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/UPDATING,v
retrieving revision 1.228
diff -u -r1.228 UPDATING
--- UPDATING 30 Oct 2002 20:11:07 -0000 1.228
+++ UPDATING 23 Nov 2002 17:03:07 -0000
@@ -1017,6 +1017,7 @@
[1]
<reboot in single user> [3]
mergemaster -p [5]
+ <maybe clean up /usr/include and /usr/lib> [10]
make installworld
mergemaster [4]
<reboot>
@@ -1116,6 +1117,25 @@
[9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have
cvs prune empty directories.
+
+ [10] Just before running "make installworld" in single user mode, you
+ might want to run the following to make sure there are no stale
+ include files or libraries in your installed system:
+ cd /usr
+ mv include include.old
+ mkdir include
+ mtree -deU < /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.include.dist
+ mv lib lib.old
+ mkdir lib
+ ldconfig -elf /usr/lib.old
+ Note that you should be careful when libraries have been obsoleted,
+ since it is possible for some of your ports or packages to break, if
+ they had been linked against libraries that are moved to /usr/lib.old
+ by this. Don't remove /usr/lib.old right away! You might find that
+ it still has libraries you need. After you have installed everything
+ and checked that no problems of missing libraries exist, you can
+ safely remove both /usr/include.old and /usr/lib.old.
+
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