Re: library cleanup after a system upgrade

To: Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost>
Subject: Re: library cleanup after a system upgrade
From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader%gmail.com@localhost>
Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 21:09:18 -0400

> suppose you upgrade netbsd with a major release.
> What happens to the "old libraries" ? I think they are left in so
> binaries continue to run.
> Just the new ones are symlinked to current.

Running symlinks(8) on /usr and lib/ can cleanup the dangling
symlinks. Fedora includes it in their dnf-system-upgrade process.

It won't free up obsolete packages, though.

Also see https://linux.die.net/man/8/symlinks and
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/dnf-system-upgrade/.

Jeff

References:
- library cleanup after a system upgrade
  - From: Riccardo Mottola

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