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Date:      Wed, 26 Aug 2015 10:12:15 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Christian Kratzer <ck-lists@cksoft.de>
To:        Xin Li <delphij@delphij.net>
Cc:        Andreas Ott <andreas@naund.org>,  Maurizio Vairani <maurizio.vairani@cloverinformatica.it>,  "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>,  FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>,  jungle Boogie <jungleboogie0@gmail.com>, pkubaj@riseup.net
Subject:   Re: Error upgrading from 10.1-RELEASE to 10.2-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.1508261010340.791@noc1.cksoft.de>
In-Reply-To: <55DD51CC.6000906@delphij.net>
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Hi,

On Tue, 25 Aug 2015, Xin Li wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We believe this is because phttpget (the pipelined HTTP client that
> freebsd-update and portsnap uses) was unable to get the right file(s)
> from the server, that sometimes the client would get wrong file from the
> server, and it's not reproducable when requesting again.  We have then
> able to develop a test case to reliably provoke this on update2.FreeBSD.org.
>
> Thanks for Peter's help, we have narrowed down the problem to a specific
> version (1.4.36) of lighttpd (*), which update2.FreeBSD.org is using,
> and the problem should have been resolved at this time after the web
> server is replaced with nginx.
>
> Please let us (security-officer@, clusteradm@) know if the problem still
> persists.
>
> Cheers,
>
> (*) We are not yet certain if it was a bug with lighttpd itself, or a
> bug with phttpget that made newer versions of lighttpd unhappy.  It's
> worthy to find it out and maintainer is cc'ed.
>

thanks for fixing this and thanks for the detailed feedback.

I was able to update 5 systems at two different sites this morning without a glitch.

An update before the fix required upto 10 retries to be successfull.

So it definetely looks like this has been fixed.

Greetings
Christian

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