freebsd-update: Installing updates...install: ///usr/src/contrib/tzdata/zone1970.tab: No such file or directory

[Royce Williams]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:15 PM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bris.ac.uk> wrote:
> I'm trying to update from 10.0-RELEASE-p12 amd64 to
> 10.0-RELEASE-p13.
>
> I get:
>
> # freebsd-update fetch
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found.
> Fetching metadata signature for 10.0-RELEASE from update4.freebsd.org... done.
> Fetching metadata index... done.
> Inspecting system... done.
> Preparing to download files... done.
>
> The following files will be added as part of updating to 10.0-RELEASE-p13:
> /usr/src/contrib/tzdata/zone1970.tab
> # freebsd-update install
> Installing updates...install: ///usr/src/contrib/tzdata/zone1970.tab: No such file or directory
>  done.
> #

You can create the missing directory path:

# mkdir -p /usr/src/contrib/tzdata/

freebsd-update does not always create the paths itself.

Royce