On 21/09/2019 10:16, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 21/09/2019 09:59, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> So, I have a VM running current which I maintain by building packages. >> On doing a routine update, I see the following: >> >> ``` >> codling:~:# etcupdate >> Warnings: >> Removed file changed: /etc/rc.d/growfs >> Removed file changed: /etc/rc.subr >> ``` >> >> Looks like there were quite a lot of changes in the packaging layout >> between the last time I updated (Git says: b31afabd4c1-c262274(master)) >> and yesterday when I pulled the latest source from git. One of those >> changes is that there seems to be a new FreeBSD-rc base package: >> >> ``` >> codling:/usr/src:# pkg install FreeBSD-rc >> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... >> pkg: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest/meta.txz: No address >> record >> repository FreeBSD has no meta file, using default settings >> FreeBSD repository is up to date. >> Updating base repository catalogue... >> base repository is up to date. >> All repositories are up to date. >> Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) >> The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked): >> >> New packages to be INSTALLED: >> FreeBSD-rc: 13.0.s20190920215733 [base] >> >> Number of packages to be installed: 1 >> >> Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y >> [1/1] Installing FreeBSD-rc-13.0.s20190920215733... >> [1/1] Extracting FreeBSD-rc-13.0.s20190920215733: 100% >> ``` >> >> Unfortunately it didn't get installed as part of the routine update. >> >> Easily fixed (as above), but now I'm wondering what other packages I >> should have installed but don't. Is there a meta-port or some such that >> will ensure my FreeBSD system has all the essentials needed to boot? >> > > Seems that the bootloader also goes missing in much the same way... > > ``` > codling:/usr/home/matthew:# pkg search -x '^FreeBSD.*boot' > FreeBSD-bootloader-13.0.s20190920215733 Bootloader > codling:/usr/home/matthew:# pkg info -x '^FreeBSD.*boot' > pkg: No package(s) matching ^FreeBSD.*boot > codling:/usr/home/matthew:# pkg install FreeBSD-bootloader > Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... > FreeBSD repository is up to date. > Updating base repository catalogue... > base repository is up to date. > All repositories are up to date. > Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) > The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked): > > New packages to be INSTALLED: > FreeBSD-bootloader: 13.0.s20190920215733 [base] > > Number of packages to be installed: 1 > > The process will require 4 MiB more space. > > Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y > [1/1] Installing FreeBSD-bootloader-13.0.s20190920215733... > [1/1] Extracting FreeBSD-bootloader-13.0.s20190920215733: 100% > ``` > > Ooops. >
Oh, and it replaced /etc/master.passwd and /etc/mail/aliases with the
default versions. Thank heavens for /var/backups
Double oops. Nothing particularly disastrous, so long as you're
expecting the breakage and know how to fix things.
Cheers,
Matthew
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