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Date:      Wed, 31 Aug 2016 17:41:40 -0400
From:      Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unexplained update to /boot/boot1.efi and 2 others by freebsd-update
Message-ID:  <CAPyFy2DrzZcEF9yc5TA0Bt=eE7sOhq6apagRfZpXezy1ANBoFQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160823002821.GJ1069@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201608221415.u7MEFl8d009158@higson.cam.lispworks.com> <20160823002821.GJ1069@FreeBSD.org>

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On 22 August 2016 at 20:28, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> The freebsd-update build code attempts to extract and ignore timestamps in order
> to determine whether files are 'really' changing between builds; unfortunately these
> particular files contain a build artifact which the freebsd-update code was not
> able to handle, thus resulting in them being incorrectly identified as needing to be
> distributed.

The issue with PE/COFF timestamps in the UEFI bootloader components is
fixed as of SVN r305160 in HEAD and will make it back to stable/11 in
due course. The timestamps will now be set to a consistent, known
value.



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