Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 13:06:00 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Latest 9.2-RELEASE-p5 update keeps wanting to install /boot/kernel/linker.hints Message-ID: <20140502060600.GA4063@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> In-Reply-To: <20140501170847.GA29302@ozzmosis.com> References: <51EB2D64-1000-404B-BB63-8BB6F9D72A01@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <20140501170847.GA29302@ozzmosis.com>
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andrew clarke wrote: > On Thu 2014-05-01 11:28:16 UTC-0400, Paul Mather (freebsd-lists@gromit.dlib.vt.edu) wrote: > > > I used freebsd-update to apply the latest security updates to bring > > several FreeBSD/amd64 systems to 9.2-RELEASE-p5. Unfortunately, the > > subsequent "freebsd-update cron" run reported there were still updates > > available: > > > > ===== > > [[...]] > > > > The following files will be updated as part of updating to 9.2-RELEASE-p5: > > /boot/kernel/linker.hints > > ===== [dd] > > A quick googling shows this is quite an old bug! > > Short answer: It's annoying but you can safely ignore it. > > Long answer: linker.hints is actually generated locally when > freebsd-update runs "kldxref -R /boot/". The problem is then sometimes > the local checksum doesn't match the freebsd-update server's remote > checksum of linker.hints, because kldxref in 9.2-REL does not take > into account that the order of a directory can be different between > machines/filesystems. > > A patch was submitted to 9-stable & 10-stable in Dec 2013: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=182098 This problem is also relevant for 8.4-RELEASE-p9. Ignoring it is not convenient because while the problem is there, freebsd-update generates an E-mail every time it is run. While it should remain silent if there are no updates. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru
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