freebsd-update keeps wanting to remove .. somthing

[Dan Busarow]

On 10/6/15 8:10 AM, RW via freebsd-questions wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Oct 2015 06:59:07 -0600
> Dan Busarow wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> On two of the 9.3 boxes I run, freebsd-update has started sending me 
>> these messages after the actual update to 9.3 p28
>> ... 
>> The following files will be removed as part of updating to
>> 9.3-RELEASE-p28:
>>
>> There are no files listed.  Only a single blank line.  Can any one 
>> suggest a way to find out what file is causing freebsd-update to
>> trigger these emails?
> 
> There probably isn't one. The list comes from this line:
> 
>    comm -23 INDEX-PRESENT.flist INDEX-NEW.flist > files.removed
> 
> so, by the look of it, there's just an extra newline in
> INDEX-PRESENT.flist. 
> 
> 
> If you want to debug it I'd start by taking a copy of the files:
> INDEX-PRESENT, INDEX-NEW, INDEX-PRESENT.flist and INDEX-NEW.flist.

Thanks!

I'll dig in and see what I can find.

Dan
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