Unexplained update to /boot/boot1.efi and 2 others by freebsd-update
Ed Maste
emaste at freebsd.org
Wed Aug 31 21:42:02 UTC 2016
On 22 August 2016 at 20:28, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> The freebsd-update build code attempts to extract and ignore timestamps in order
> to determine whether files are 'really' changing between builds; unfortunately these
> particular files contain a build artifact which the freebsd-update code was not
> able to handle, thus resulting in them being incorrectly identified as needing to be
> distributed.
The issue with PE/COFF timestamps in the UEFI bootloader components is
fixed as of SVN r305160 in HEAD and will make it back to stable/11 in
due course. The timestamps will now be set to a consistent, known
value.
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