>Number: 186152
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: [patch] freebsd-update -b: correctly handle symlinks with
>absolute paths
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Jan 27 01:50:00 UTC 2014
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: David Shane Holden
>Release: 10.0-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD node 10.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE #0 r260789: Thu Jan 16 22:34:59
UTC 2014 r...@snap.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>Description:
When upgrading a base directory (freebsd-update -b), symlinks with absolute
paths are checked against the host system instead of the base directory which
was causing the problem reported at
https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=44520.
>How-To-Repeat:
Check forums thread.
>Fix:
Patch attached with submission follows:
--- freebsd-update.orig 2014-01-27 01:03:59.000000000 +0000
+++ freebsd-update 2014-01-27 01:18:01.000000000 +0000
@@ -1437,11 +1437,21 @@
# sorted by device and inode number.
while read F; do
# If the symlink/file/directory does not exist, record this.
- if ! [ -e ${BASEDIR}/${F} ]; then
+ # Symlinks with absolute paths need to be checked relative
+ # to their base directories.
+ FF=${F}
+ if [ -L ${BASEDIR}/${F} ]; then
+ LINK=`readlink ${BASEDIR}/${F}`
+ echo "${LINK}" | grep -qe "^/"
+ if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+ FF=${LINK}
+ fi
+ fi
+ if ! [ -e ${BASEDIR}/${FF} ]; then
echo "${F}|-||||||"
continue
fi
- if ! [ -r ${BASEDIR}/${F} ]; then
+ if ! [ -r ${BASEDIR}/${FF} ]; then
echo "Cannot read file: ${BASEDIR}/${F}" \
>/dev/stderr
touch .err
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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