Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 11:08:59 -0800 From: Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org> To: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd-update to 9.2-RELEASE-p8 loop Message-ID: <CA%2BE3k93FkNuFW7m9094tKixdfw6CiyczJS1DZq0=bUFL6Z0m2g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BE3k91fgEWcKgEO_JQ0AG_DXs7SC9S_7suo8=J%2BKy%2BiVJhUBg@mail.gmail.com> References: <20140610195025.af77561acbb2224539762600@mimar.rs> <20140610175315.GR2341@home.opsec.eu> <20140610180515.GA2380@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <CA%2BE3k91fgEWcKgEO_JQ0AG_DXs7SC9S_7suo8=J%2BKy%2BiVJhUBg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Michael W. Lucas > <mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com> 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
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