-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-EN-17:04.mandoc Errata Notice The FreeBSD Project Topic: makewhatis output is not reproducible Category: contrib Module: mandoc Announced: 2017-02-23 Credits: Ingo Schwarze, Ed Maste Affects: FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE Corrected: 2016-11-26 03:39:02 UTC (stable/11, 11.0-STABLE) 2017-02-23 07:11:48 UTC (releng/11.0, 11.0-RELEASE-p8) For general information regarding FreeBSD Errata Notices and Security Advisories, including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the following sections, please visit . I. Background The makewhatis utility extracts keywords from UNIX manuals and indexes them in a database for fast retrieval by apropos(1), whatis(1), and man(1)'s -k option. II. Problem Description The generation of makewhatis database is not reproducible. III. Impact The freebsd-update(8) build procedure may consider mandoc.db as changed when built multiple times. IV. Workaround No workaround is available, but the impact is mostly cosmetic. V. Solution Perform one of the following: 1) Upgrade your system to a supported FreeBSD stable or release / security branch (releng) dated after the correction date. Reboot is not necessary. 2) To update your system via a binary patch: Systems running a RELEASE version of FreeBSD on the i386 or amd64 platforms can be updated via the freebsd-update(8) utility: # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install Reboot is not necessary. 3) To update your system via a source code patch: The following patches have been verified to apply to the applicable FreeBSD release branches. a) Download the relevant patch from the location below, and verify the detached PGP signature using your PGP utility. # fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/EN-17:04/mandoc.patch # fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/EN-17:04/mandoc.patch.asc # gpg --verify mandoc.patch.asc b) Apply the patch. Execute the following commands as root: # cd /usr/src # patch < /path/to/patch c) Recompile the operating system using buildworld and installworld as described in . VI. Correction details The following list contains the correction revision numbers for each affected branch. Branch/path Revision - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- stable/11/ r309183 releng/11.0/ r314125 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To see which files were modified by a particular revision, run the following command, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number, on a machine with Subversion installed: # svn diff -cNNNNNN --summarize svn://svn.freebsd.org/base Or visit the following URL, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number: VII. References The latest revision of this advisory is available at -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.1.18 (FreeBSD) iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEHPf/b631yp++G4yy7Wfs1l3PaucFAliujOMACgkQ7Wfs1l3P aucxsA//fsEp6miJAsXLBOFxI1hiRheHb6HlOaXYrMo59sKLgRGRipe34AxIq3Ca cYvVRHOEpXlUZNMvModg/P42SkkQLDi+2tIenvQUG5T5r3xSRTAHOU0pSRlpfjaA 8OCIaZaWYDIcTOEfaQocIbjwuKfzw5qVxZY6Ot3NPz0QEpOSzFGkbRrM8JxkrVyg ROtzY/rqaDbhfdKyTCS8PZCIW4ZwNiBjAV9kZysviN3RUSQvLaxEC+vTDjU9BBm5 CKIU3y0aoSlO4W6A9ahqVb/4hX7A2WBoFpfhMVXsVOzi4SkJhaFKNdjwbq6Nrmxr hePKGTSYVtcVIaiyf0rJwHDvGK6y4NKCTTqCwlQ7hrMGZHY2D5t5NAdd10uvIrv6 PDQkJBap5hZTnSeJ+rZt1jSUR1qAJ+xb86Fe1dG30fs6AsKpbYJEpTLWgSXmOfp/ GQT0SCxv5mxtxMzIom8MUQipYay1cUIiXAh/wlfxERNWHHt3UXoP4/wS9Df+26w9 zQ/5fk3TbtxAcCpZWBeZr1+pKIomQ4+51wU7zgyjAHvGRDesoA54XS3BOTJPWKnY G1iNBWECSQC26jwzmSv/MMXf4BqT6ezZXXZ22uMeYQCTD4p0tiC6/H4RUEVSgOSl TnZ026b3FQRlE6FIOYPK9a4AipnLYu4NW6f9tsJquwRyElLSd/U= =oyNi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----