[Bug 294000] freebsd-update: installs norwegian locale LC_MESSAGES as recursive symlink instead of a file

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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:59:05 UTC 
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=294000

            Bug ID: 294000
           Summary: freebsd-update: installs norwegian locale LC_MESSAGES
                    as recursive symlink instead of a file
           Product: Base System
           Version: 15.0-RELEASE
          Hardware: amd64
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: bin
          Assignee: bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: girgen@FreeBSD.org

A system that was updated to 15.0 using freebsd-update:

/usr/share/locale/nn_NO.ISO8859-15:
total 37
-r--r--r--    1 root wheel 16464 nov. 23  2021 LC_COLLATE
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root wheel    28 feb. 22  2020 LC_CTYPE@ ->
../en_US.ISO8859-15/LC_CTYPE
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root wheel    31 apr.  4  2024 LC_MESSAGES@ ->
../nn_NO.ISO8859-15/LC_MESSAGES
-r--r--r--    1 root wheel    33 feb. 22  2020 LC_MONETARY
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root wheel    29 feb. 22  2020 LC_NUMERIC@ ->
../uk_UA.ISO8859-5/LC_NUMERIC
-r--r--r--    1 root wheel   392 feb. 22  2020 LC_TIME

as you can see, the LC_MESSAGES is an infinitely recursive symbolic link, as it
points to itself.


A freshly installed version of FreeBSD-15.0:

/usr/share/locale/nn_NO.ISO8859-15:
total 19
-r--r--r--  1 root wheel 16464 Nov 28 01:00 LC_COLLATE
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel    28 Nov 28 01:00 LC_CTYPE ->
../en_US.ISO8859-15/LC_CTYPE
-r--r--r--  1 root wheel   142 Nov 28 01:00 LC_MESSAGES
-r--r--r--  1 root wheel    33 Nov 28 01:00 LC_MONETARY
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel    29 Nov 28 01:00 LC_NUMERIC ->
../uk_UA.ISO8859-5/LC_NUMERIC
-r--r--r--  1 root wheel   392 Nov 28 01:00 LC_TIME

Here, the LC_MESSAGES is a file.

freebsd-update gerts confused somehow and installs a symlink instead of the
proper file.

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