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Guess the simple diff belongs on tech rather than misc...
I think this is worth fixing as it bloats /usr/share by 100~250M
depending on platform and kernel that I checked.
On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 01:19:45PM -0500, Andrew Daugherity wrote:
> On a system which was installed several years ago, back when the
> automatic disklabel gave 2 GB to /usr, that filesystem is filling up
> to the point sysupgrade failed. sysclean helped me get enough space
> to upgrade, but in searching for other things to clean up, I
> discovered a large (225 MB) newbsd.gdb file in the kernel relink
> directory.
>
> The Makefile in said directory removes bsd.gdb before renaming newbsd
> to bsd. I think it should be removing newbsd.gdb instead, like so:
> ====
> --- /usr/share/relink/kernel/GENERIC.MP/Makefile~ Sun Apr 13 09:19:41 2025
> +++ /usr/share/relink/kernel/GENERIC.MP/Makefile Wed Jun 11 12:51:38 2025
> @@ -2434,7 +2434,7 @@
> ${SYSTEM_LD_HEAD}
> ${SYSTEM_LD} swapgeneric.o
> ${SYSTEM_LD_TAIL}
> - rm -f bsd.gdb
> + rm -f newbsd.gdb
> mv -f newbsd bsd
>
> update-link:
Good find. The Makefile is generated by 'make config' step for kernel
builds and 'make install' creates and installs the terball.
The bug is in config(8):
Index: mkmakefile.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/config/mkmakefile.c,v
diff -u -p -r1.48 mkmakefile.c
--- mkmakefile.c 28 Nov 2021 19:26:03 -0000 1.48
+++ mkmakefile.c 11 Jun 2025 20:47:31 -0000
@@ -516,7 +516,7 @@ emitload(FILE *fp)
"\t${SYSTEM_LD_HEAD}\n"
"\t${SYSTEM_LD} swap%s.o\n"
"\t${SYSTEM_LD_TAIL}\n"
- "\trm -f %s.gdb\n"
+ "\trm -f new%s.gdb\n"
"\tmv -f new%s %s\n\n",
swname, nm, nm, nm) < 0)
return (1);
rm newbsd.gdb after kernel relink?]