Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 20:39:40 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 207377] [10.3-BETA2] freebsd-update relying on kern.bootfile copies around entire filesystem Message-ID: <bug-207377-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207377 Bug ID: 207377 Summary: [10.3-BETA2] freebsd-update relying on kern.bootfile copies around entire filesystem Product: Base System Version: 11.0-CURRENT Hardware: Any OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Some People Priority: --- Component: bin Assignee: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Reporter: h2+fbsdports@fsfe.org I am just updating to 10.3-BETA2 with freebsd-update and it starting copying my entire filesystem into /boot/kernel.old/ After some debugging I found out that this is due to a mechanism where it detects the kernel dir from kern.bootfile. Since I have a slightly more sophisticated setup where I use grub, this variable ends up being /kernel => freebsd-update assumes that / is the kerneldir and copies *everything* into the backup dir as mentioned above. I think this is bad behaviour, a smart thing would be to check if the directory pointed to by kern.bootfile actually contains a kernel file, and if not ask the user to specify the directory or skip the backup process entirely. Most users rely on snapshots nowadays so this step is not really crucial. And / should never be accepted as KERNELDIR IMHO. Thank you! -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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