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Date:      Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:28:44 +0000
From:      Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org>
To:        FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, security-officer@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   freebsd-update and boot environments clash - rm /  attempted!
Message-ID:  <54914CCC.7080102@qeng-ho.org>

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I just updated my systems to deal with the latest security bulletin. On 
the machines where I'm running zfs based boot environments I got the 
somewhat worrying:


root@arthur:5# freebsd-update fetch install
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 10.1-RELEASE from update4.freebsd.org... 
done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 2 metadata patches.. done.
Applying metadata patches... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.
Fetching 8 patches..... done.
Applying patches... done.
Fetching 14 files... done.

The following files will be removed as part of updating to 10.1-RELEASE-p2:
/

The following files will be updated as part of updating to 10.1-RELEASE-p2:
[list snipped]
Installing updates...rmdir: ///: Is a directory
  done.

Fortunately it didn't remove /, although I really don't understand that 
message.


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