freebsd-update to 9.2-RELEASE-p8 loop

[Royce Williams]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Michael W. Lucas
<mwlucas at michaelwlucas.com> wrote:
> 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.

More background in this forums thread:

https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?&t=1362

Also, I've found that just adding the IgnorePaths line may be
necessary, but is not sufficient.  I have added that line, but
freebsd-update continues to detect linker.hints as a needed update:

$ grep linker /etc/freebsd-update.conf
IgnorePaths /boot/kernel/linker.hints

$ sudo freebsd-update fetch
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 8.4-RELEASE from update4.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.

The following files will be updated as part of updating to 8.4-RELEASE-p12:
/boot/kernel/linker.hints

Royce