FreeBSD 9.3-RC1 Now Available

[Peter Wemm]

On Sunday 22 June 2014 20:23:58 Matthias Andree wrote:
> Am 21.06.2014 16:04, schrieb Glen Barber:
> > The first RC build of the 9.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available
> > on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and
> > sparc64 architectures.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of amd64 and i386
> > systems running earlier FreeBSD releases.  Systems running earlier
> > 
> > FreeBSD releases can upgrade as follows:
> > 	# freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.3-RC1
> > 
> > During this process, freebsd-update(8) may ask the user to help by
> > merging some configuration files or by confirming that the automatically
> > performed merging was done correctly.
> 
> I see these issues on the second "freebsd-update" install run:
> > install: ///usr/src/contrib/bind9/libtool.m4 exists but is not a directory
> > install: ///usr/src/contrib/bind9/libtool.m4/libtool.m4: Not a directory
> > install: ///usr/src/contrib/bind9/libtool.m4/ltoptions.m4: Not a directory
> > install: ///usr/src/contrib/bind9/libtool.m4/ltsugar.m4: Not a directory
> > install: ///usr/src/contrib/bind9/libtool.m4/ltversion.m4: Not a directory
> 
> This is whilst upgrading from 9.1-RELEASE-p(whichever was most current a
> week ago).
> 
> Is this just my system, or a known issue?

Likely a bug in freebsd-update.  It also broke the svn -> cvs and svn -> 
perforce converters.  In the source tree, a file was replaced with a directory 
with the same name.
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Peter Wemm - peter at wemm.org; peter at FreeBSD.org; peter at yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV
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