Date: Thu, 01 May 2014 19:24:48 +0100 From: Paul Macdonald <paul@ifdnrg.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Latest 9.2-RELEASE-p5 update keeps wanting to install /boot/kernel/linker.hints Message-ID: <53629170.7000202@ifdnrg.com> In-Reply-To: <20140501170847.GA29302@ozzmosis.com> References: <51EB2D64-1000-404B-BB63-8BB6F9D72A01@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <20140501170847.GA29302@ozzmosis.com>
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> A quick googling shows this is quite an old bug! > > Short answer: It's annoying but you can safely ignore it. > > Long answer: linker.hints is actually generated locally when > freebsd-update runs "kldxref -R /boot/". The problem is then sometimes > the local checksum doesn't match the freebsd-update server's remote > checksum of linker.hints, because kldxref in 9.2-REL does not take > into account that the order of a directory can be different between > machines/filesystems. > > A patch was submitted to 9-stable & 10-stable in Dec 2013: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=182098 > > I think the only way to fix this properly is for the FreeBSD team to > backport the kldxref.c patch to 9.2-REL and issue it as 9.2-REL-p6. > The machines generating the freebsd-update files need the kldxref > patch for local and remote checksums of linker.hints to match; it's > not enough to just patch kldxref on your local machine. > > Regards > Andrew it's also showing up on 8.4 machines and adding it to IgnorePaths in /etc/freebsd-update.conf has no effect. I'd also say its not just an annoyance, if you script stuff so you can see what needs updated.. Paul.
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