Kevin Oberman
2014-Jan-21 07:41 UTC
freebsd-update upgrade failes if WITHOUT_IPX is used in src.conf
If you use frebsd-up0date on a system that has WITHOUT_IPX= in src.conf, you end up with a badly broken system as freebsd-update honors src.conf by not installing liubipx.so, but fails to honor it by installing ifconfig that required it leaving a system without a network. This is especially messy if the system lacks sources to allow either ifconfig to be re-built or libipx to be built. This should be fixed either by always having libipx installed by freebsd-update or by having a binary NOT linked against libipx installed when WITHOUT_IPX is used. I also wonder how many similar cases might be present. For now, my recommendation is to not have anything in src.conf when using freebsd-update. As I will shhortly be moving this system back to stable, I will not be continuing to use it on this system and will restore my src.conf. I'll try to submit a PR on this tomorrow. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com