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Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 10:41:00 +1000
From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com>
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Subject: Re: Latest 9.2-RELEASE-p5 update keeps wanting to install
 /boot/kernel/linker.hints
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On Fri 2014-05-02 03:08:47 UTC+1000, andrew clarke (mail@ozzmosis.com) wrote:

> 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.

Update: A PR was submitted:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=189249

And swiftly acted on:

http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-14:04.kldxref.asc

Thanks to Jilles Tjoelker.

Regards
Andrew