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freebsd-update: Fix merging already-updated files
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When performing an "upgrade" (moving between FreeBSD releases, as
opposed to "update" which merely applies security/errata updates
to the installed release) FreeBSD Update:

1. Generates a list of "files needing to be merged", namely those
files which don't match the version installed in the "old" release
and have paths matching the MergeChanges configuration directive
(by default, /boot/device.hints and everything under /etc/).

and later on,

2. Compares the currently-installed files to the versions in the
"new" release, removing index entries for files which "don't need
to be updated because they're not changing".

Unfortunately if a file falls into both of these categories -- that
is to say, if a file in /etc/ is the same as the version in the new
release and not the same as the version in the old release -- the
resulting "merge" step saw that the file was no longer listed as
being part of the new release, resulting in the file being deleted.

For the first 18 years of FreeBSD Update's existence, this never
happened, since $FreeBSD$ tags resulted in "new release" files
always being different from any files systems would already have
installed.

This commit fixes this behaviour by only placing a file into the
"files needing to be merged" list if it does not match the version
in the old release *or* the version in the new release.

Reported by:	des
Reviewed by:	delphij (earlier version), des, emaste
Approved by:	so
Security:	FreeBSD-EN-23:09.freebsd-update
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D39973

(cherry picked from commit c55b7e5)
(cherry picked from commit 5f446a1)
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cperciva authored and tetlowgm committed Oct 3, 2023
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20 changes: 11 additions & 9 deletions usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.sh
Expand Up @@ -1677,21 +1677,23 @@ fetch_inspect_system () {
echo "done."
}

# For any paths matching ${MERGECHANGES}, compare $1 and $2 and find any
# files which differ; generate $3 containing these paths and the old hashes.
# For any paths matching ${MERGECHANGES}, compare $2 against $1 and $3 and
# find any files with values unique to $2; generate $4 containing these paths
# and their corresponding hashes from $1.
fetch_filter_mergechanges () {
# Pull out the paths and hashes of the files matching ${MERGECHANGES}.
for F in $1 $2; do
for F in $1 $2 $3; do
for X in ${MERGECHANGES}; do
grep -E "^${X}" ${F}
done |
cut -f 1,2,7 -d '|' |
sort > ${F}-values
done

# Any line in $2-values which doesn't appear in $1-values and is a
# file means that we should list the path in $3.
comm -13 $1-values $2-values |
# Any line in $2-values which doesn't appear in $1-values or $3-values
# and is a file means that we should list the path in $3.
sort $1-values $3-values |
comm -13 - $2-values |
fgrep '|f|' |
cut -f 1 -d '|' > $2-paths

Expand All @@ -1703,10 +1705,10 @@ fetch_filter_mergechanges () {
while read X; do
look "${X}|" $1-values |
head -1
done < $2-paths > $3
done < $2-paths > $4

# Clean up
rm $1-values $2-values $2-paths
rm $1-values $2-values $3-values $2-paths
}

# For any paths matching ${UPDATEIFUNMODIFIED}, remove lines from $[123]
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -2698,7 +2700,7 @@ upgrade_run () {

# Based on ${MERGECHANGES}, generate a file tomerge-old with the
# paths and hashes of old versions of files to merge.
fetch_filter_mergechanges INDEX-OLD INDEX-PRESENT tomerge-old
fetch_filter_mergechanges INDEX-OLD INDEX-PRESENT INDEX-NEW tomerge-old

# Based on ${UPDATEIFUNMODIFIED}, remove lines from INDEX-* which
# correspond to lines in INDEX-PRESENT with hashes not appearing
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