Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:43:39 -0800 From: Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org> To: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com> Cc: Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd-update to 9.2-RELEASE-p8 loop Message-ID: <CA%2BE3k91fgEWcKgEO_JQ0AG_DXs7SC9S_7suo8=J%2BKy%2BiVJhUBg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140610180515.GA2380@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> References: <20140610195025.af77561acbb2224539762600@mimar.rs> <20140610175315.GR2341@home.opsec.eu> <20140610180515.GA2380@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
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On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Michael W. Lucas <mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 07:53:15PM +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote: >> Hi! >> >> > I used freebsd-update to update from 9.2-RELEASE-p7 to 9.2-RELEASE-p8 >> > and rebooted. >> > >> > After reboot, uname -a shows 9.2-RELEASE-p7, but I've seen this before >> > and consider it normal. >> >> p8 did not touch the kernel, therefore there is no update in the uname output. >> >> Why it again and again updates linker.hints, I don't know. > > linker.hints should be added to /etc/freebsd-update.conf IgnoreFiles, i.e.: > > IgnorePaths /boot/kernel/linker.hints > > linker.hints is dynamically generated, and freebsd-update shouldn't > touch it. Yes, it's a bug. More background in this forums thread: https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?&t=1362 Also, I've found that just adding the IgnorePaths line may be necessary, but is not sufficient. I have added that line, but freebsd-update continues to detect linker.hints as a needed update: $ grep linker /etc/freebsd-update.conf IgnorePaths /boot/kernel/linker.hints $ sudo freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 8.4-RELEASE from update4.freebsd.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Inspecting system... done. Preparing to download files... done. The following files will be updated as part of updating to 8.4-RELEASE-p12: /boot/kernel/linker.hints Royce
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