freebsd-update to 9.2-RELEASE-p8 loop

[Royce Williams]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Royce Williams <royce at tycho.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Royce Williams <royce at tycho.org> wrote:
>> 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
>
> Better reference on freebsd-questions, but it raises more questions
> than it answers:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2014-May/257950.html
>
> Specifically, multiple users appear to still be experiencing this,
> even after applying the fix for this erratum:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-14:04.kldxref.asc

... and there an open PR here, with folks still unable to ignore
linker.hints, even after applying EN-14:04.kldxref.

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189249

... and another thread from May 27 that went quiet after someone still
had the problem after applying the erratum fix:

https://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-security@freebsd.org/msg05027.html

Royce