freebsd stable - Nov 2004 - List of unneeded files?

Hello.

I just upgraded my 5.2.1-RELEASE laptop to 5.3-RELEASE, all went fine
but I have a question: Is there a list of the files installed by 5.2.1-RELEASE
that are not installed/needed by the 5.3-RELEASE? If there isn't, why not?

I've looked through the Release Notes and Migration Guide without finding
anything like this, I can't say it feels like a "clean upgrade"
until
those files
are gone.

Best regards,
Aron Stansvik

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 04:39:33PM +0100, Aron Stansvik
wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I just upgraded my 5.2.1-RELEASE laptop to 5.3-RELEASE, all went fine
> but I have a question: Is there a list of the files installed by
5.2.1-RELEASE
> that are not installed/needed by the 5.3-RELEASE? If there isn't, why
not?
Short answer: someone (perhaps you?) needs to maintain such a thing,
and associated infrastructure.  Longer answers: see the archives for
extensive discussion.

Kris

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 04:39:33PM +0100, Aron Stansvik
wrote:
> I just upgraded my 5.2.1-RELEASE laptop to 5.3-RELEASE, all went fine
> but I have a question: Is there a list of the files installed by
5.2.1-RELEASE
> that are not installed/needed by the 5.3-RELEASE? If there isn't, why
not?
> 
> I've looked through the Release Notes and Migration Guide without
finding
> anything like this, I can't say it feels like a "clean
upgrade" until
> those files
> are gone.
As mentioned in the Migration Guide, the perferred upgrade method is to dump all
configuration files, then install from scratch.

However, you may find

``find /usr/bin /usr/sbin /usr/lib /usr/libexec /usr/share -atime +30
-delete''

useful, while this is not guaranteed to be safe if you have some handly
installed
applications.  Please be sure that you have backed up everything before doing
so.

Cheers,
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