Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 20:29:29 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update install failed Message-ID: <20141024202929.26ae9a62@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <544A8AF4.3060700@gmx.com> References: <5449B4CA.508@gmx.com> <544A7CF0.4030905@gmx.com> <544A7E71.9070604@freebsd.org> <544A8AF4.3060700@gmx.com>
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On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 19:23:00 +0200 dt71@gmx.com wrote: > Allan Jude wrote on 10/24/2014 18:29: > > Do you have a src tree installed? > > Obviously not. It's not at all obvious. > > 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. > freebsd-update can update /usr/src, it depends how it's set-up in freebsd-update.conf
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