Latest 9.2-RELEASE-p5 update keeps wanting to install /boot/kernel/linker.hints

[R. Scott Evans]

I'm still seeing this issue after the 9.2-RELEASE-p6 binary update.

-scott

On 05/13/14 20:41, andrew clarke wrote:
> On Fri 2014-05-02 03:08:47 UTC+1000, andrew clarke (mail at ozzmosis.com) wrote:
>
>> A patch was submitted to 9-stable & 10-stable in Dec 2013:
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=182098
>>
>> I think the only way to fix this properly is for the FreeBSD team to
>> backport the kldxref.c patch to 9.2-REL and issue it as 9.2-REL-p6.
>> The machines generating the freebsd-update files need the kldxref
>> patch for local and remote checksums of linker.hints to match; it's
>> not enough to just patch kldxref on your local machine.
>
> Update: A PR was submitted:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=189249
>
> And swiftly acted on:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-14:04.kldxref.asc
>
> Thanks to Jilles Tjoelker.
>
> Regards
> Andrew
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