From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 2 06:06:07 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5C876203 for ; Fri, 2 May 2014 06:06:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay2.tomsk.ru (mail.sibptus.tomsk.ru [212.73.124.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BACD21CDE for ; Fri, 2 May 2014 06:06:06 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by clamd daemon 0.98.1 for FreeBSD at relay2.tomsk.ru Received: from admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru (account sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru [212.73.125.240] verified) by relay2.tomsk.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 35491203 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 02 May 2014 13:06:04 +0700 Received: from admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru (sudakov@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id s42661FP004178 for ; Fri, 2 May 2014 13:06:03 +0700 (NOVT) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) Received: (from sudakov@localhost) by admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id s426617L004176 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 2 May 2014 13:06:01 +0700 (NOVT) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) X-Authentication-Warning: admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru: sudakov set sender to vas@mpeks.tomsk.su using -f Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 13:06:00 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov 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> References: <51EB2D64-1000-404B-BB63-8BB6F9D72A01@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <20140501170847.GA29302@ozzmosis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140501170847.GA29302@ozzmosis.com> Organization: AO "Svyaztransneft", SibPTUS X-PGP-Key: http://www.dreamwidth.org/pubkey?user=victor_sudakov X-PGP-Fingerprint: 10E3 1171 1273 E007 C2E9 3532 0DA4 F259 9B5E C634 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 06:06:07 -0000 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