freesbd-update Continuously Wants to Update linker.hints

[Paul Macdonald]

On 01/05/2013 21:09, Alexandre wrote:
> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Paul Macdonald <paul at ifdnrg.com> wrote:
>
> After upgrading my FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p3 using freebsd-update tool, I
> encounter the same issue:
> --
> The following files will be updated as part of updating to 9.1-RELEASE-p3:
> /boot/kernel/linker.hints
> --
>
> After searching on the Internet, this post on FreeBSD forums resolved the
> problem : http://bit.ly/15a5wW1
> The full topic is here : http://bit.ly/15a5Dkv
>
> I hope this help you.
>
> Kind regards,
> Alexandre
>

This does work, in the sense that the notice disappears, is it advisable 
to add /boot/kernel to IgnorePaths though

Isn't there a danger than kernel updates supplied by freebsd-update will 
now not be applied?

Paul.



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