freebsd-update to 9.2-RELEASE-p8 loop

[Michael W. Lucas]

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.

==ml

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