freebsd-update fetch

[Derek Schrock]

On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 05:27:32PM EST, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 21/01/2017 21:51, Stari Karp wrote:
> > My system is FreeBSD 11.0_RELEASE-p7 (amd64).
> > I have today (the third time in 3 weeks) when I run freebsd-update
> > fetch:
> > The following files will be updated as part of updating to FreeBSD
> > 11.0-RELEASE-p7:
> > 
> > /usr/share/man/mandoc.db
> > /usr/share/openssl/man/mandoc.db
> > 
> > Is this security update or something is wrong on my system? Usually is
> > some email about update.
> 
> No -- this is a bug in freebsd-update(8).  The mandoc.db files are
> supplied as part of the base system install, but it seems freebsd-update
> is not managing to update them correctly.  This is pretty harmless
> though -- the mandoc.db files are used by apropos(1) to show a summary
> of the man pages in those sections.  All it means is that the database
> of manpages may be slightly out of date.
> 
> I think you may be able to simply move aside the existing mandoc.db
> files, and then run 'freebsd-update fetch install' to replace them with
> pristine copies of the latest versions.  I haven't tried that though.

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213762