Firmware upgrade process not updating executables ?

[dhatz]

I've been doing regular pfsense v2.1-BETA firmware updates via the webGUI every couple of days, but I've noticed that most executables (e.g. under /usr/local/sbin) still have an old time-stamp (Nov-2012).

I first became aware of this a couple of weeks ago, when I had to manually delete the filterdns executable in order for it to replaced by a new one with Ermal's latest fixes.

Edit: I manually deleted a number executables under /usr/local/…, then started a webGUI firmware upgrade and those executables were replaced with ones with today's time-stamp. So it seems there is an issue with the upgrade process.

[jimp]

The timestamp is not so important, check the size/hash value before and after the test.

I don't see it at the moment but we used to pass -m to tar so it would not change the modification times when extracting.