From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 10 19:09:21 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D0858B43 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 19:09:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-x22e.google.com (mail-la0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::22e]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5935C2848 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 19:09:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f46.google.com with SMTP id hz20so4036757lab.5 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 12:09:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:content-type; bh=2ZUWChKYn1aZHFJym40LShvuagksnvI8NQZ7yKIKgkU=; b=LE9M6+gDvZVMaF1EQF/d14aZZwKxyQ16hjVFru+mJ5vnOKKR91oNhFzknJcvxl3Otu s3DzqRrCLEL2BfFzD4MHzt3KcLC9y9VhjebNdt0xYjKUyCYqOsh8gGh8LOpj0YnKkOGV OxgSGHKwd/ZbywjsgY7G1VCDpJGSQYGoSKqVs1uCpYr3GHtFZveidmUBdYENhmx+qtS7 stFnQZs5wIo2Prwixq3TNHtoAZd+Q350GkHAzOuEFQKJiyEc/7lAAHAPws+bQltWnZCP oA+1UWqOAqcWM4dMfJ4jwhdB0KsNKMjto41WmAc2ZfyziO+q1OR7qj9KzKXyD90NLMzJ U/Bw== X-Received: by 10.112.118.197 with SMTP id ko5mr22690234lbb.23.1402427359158; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 12:09:19 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: royce.williams@gmail.com Received: by 10.112.17.133 with HTTP; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 12:08:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20140610195025.af77561acbb2224539762600@mimar.rs> <20140610175315.GR2341@home.opsec.eu> <20140610180515.GA2380@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> From: Royce Williams Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 11:08:59 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: loVLYxu4qd7McYxHyDWjkZ7Xrpk Message-ID: Subject: Re: freebsd-update to 9.2-RELEASE-p8 loop To: freebsd-stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 19:09:22 -0000 On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Royce Williams wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Michael W. Lucas > 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 Better reference on freebsd-questions, but it raises more questions than it answers: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2014-May/257950.html Specifically, multiple users appear to still be experiencing this, even after applying the fix for this erratum: http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-14:04.kldxref.asc Royce