pkgbase: Move of head/etc/ files

Guido Falsi madpilot at FreeBSD.org
Sat Aug 4 17:21:59 UTC 2018


On 8/4/18 6:50 PM, Brad Davis wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2018, at 4:43 AM, Guido Falsi wrote:
>> On 8/2/18 1:54 AM, Brad Davis wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I want to give some information on what is happening to files in head/etc/ and open a discussion.
>>>
>>
>> Today while updating a pkgbase machine I got this error(with trimmed
>> debug output):
>>
>> The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
>>
>> Installed packages to be UPGRADED:
>>         FreeBSD-runtime: 12.0.s20180725172903 -> 12.0.s20180803092917
>> [mpnet-base]
>>
>> Number of packages to be upgraded: 1
>>
>> Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
>> DBG(1)[71153]> want to upgrade advisory to exclusive lock
>> [1/1] Upgrading FreeBSD-runtime from 12.0.s20180725172903 to
>> 12.0.s20180803092917...
>> [1/1] Extracting FreeBSD-runtime-12.0.s20180803092917:   1%
>> DBG(1)[71153]> Populating config_file /etc/blacklistd.conf
>> [1/1] Extracting FreeBSD-runtime-12.0.s20180803092917:   1%
>> DBG(1)[71153]> Populating config_file /etc/defaults/rc.conf
>> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>>
>> I'm not sure if it's related to r336845 and r336847, but since those are
>> the only one touching rc.conf recently it looks possible.
>>
>> Anyone has an idea what I've stumbled upon?
>>
>> I'm investigating this, but if I can't fix it shortly I'll revert to my
>> previous pkg set and try again at another time. If some tests are needed
>> I'll try to perform them as requested.
> 
> This is a bug in pkg and has to do with these files transitioning from normal files to config files.
> 
> I will try and work on this in the next week.

Thanks in advance!

For me there's no hurry. I have reverted my machine and will not be
updating for at least a full week anyway.

If you need testing I'm available though.

-- 
Guido Falsi <madpilot at FreeBSD.org>


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