freebsd-update keeps wanting to update file

larynx

larynx

I'm running FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE and I check nightly for updates to the base system with this line in my /etc/crontab:

Code: 
@dailyroot freebsd-update -t myemail@example.com cron > /dev/null 2>&1

The problem is that after I upgrade to a point release I keep getting an email about 1 file that needs an update

Code: 
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 10.1-RELEASE from update5.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.

The following files will be updated as part of updating to 10.1-RELEASE-p24:
/usr/share/man/whatis

Any way I can make sure that freebsd-update knows that that file has been updated so it stops sending the email?
 
Hi.

Did you make any changes to the /etc/freebsd-update.conf file at all? IIRC, by default, /usr/share/man/whatis should be ignored by freebsd-update(8).

What is the output of grep IDSIgnorePaths\* /etc/freebsd-update.conf on the system?
 
This line shows up in /etc/freebsd-update.conf:

Code: 
IDSIgnorePaths /usr/share/man/whatis

Should that line be commented out? Because freebsd-update(8) gives me the notice about /usr/share/man/whatis having an update after every point release
 
larynx said:
This line shows up in /etc/freebsd-update.conf:

Code: 
IDSIgnorePaths /usr/share/man/whatis

Should that line be commented out? Because freebsd-update(8) gives me the notice about /usr/share/man/whatis having an update after every point release
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No, it can be left as is. Try also appending
Code: 
IgnorePaths /usr/share/man/whatis
to the freebsd-update.conf file.
 
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