Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 19:23:00 +0200 From: dt71@gmx.com To: Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update install failed Message-ID: <544A8AF4.3060700@gmx.com> In-Reply-To: <544A7E71.9070604@freebsd.org> References: <5449B4CA.508@gmx.com> <544A7CF0.4030905@gmx.com> <544A7E71.9070604@freebsd.org>
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Allan Jude wrote on 10/24/2014 18:29: > Do you have a src tree installed? Obviously not. > This error is usually Usually? You've gotta be kidding me. > caused by it trying to install the update to an > empty src tree, so the contrib/tzdata parent directory does not exist. > > It is a minor problem with freebsd-update where it gets confused the odd > time a new file has to be added in a security update. It is a problem with the update "package", actually. To update /usr/src, one should use Subversion. Not? If it is the job of freebsd-update to update /usr/src (when it exists), then freebsd-update should also try to apply source code security patches as well, which apparently is not the case.
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