Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2014 14:54:00 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: PRs included in release Message-ID: <7CE03CDF-5D07-4493-9836-233E45774D6B@lafn.org>
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I encountered what I thought was an unusual situation, although it just = may be that I don't understand something. I have a system that was = originally installed 9.2 Release. It wouldn't find the NIC and hence = couldn't work. Someone here told me I needed to get the patches from a = couple PRs and install them and the NIC would work. This was about a = year ago. As they indicated, those patches fixed the problem and the = system has worked properly ever since. However, there are a number of security fixes that have been issued for = 9.0 and I was really hesitant to upgrade (freebsd-update) as I suspected = that there would be an issue with those patches not being included. = Anyway, I decided to try the update and sure enough on reboot the NIC = didn't get recognized or configured. Fortunately freebsd-update include = a very handy rollback function that does exactly what I expected. I was = down for only a few minutes. The question then becomes how do I know if the patches for a specific PR = are included in a security release? I am guessing that those patches = will be included in 9.3, but I would like some way to check before = attempting an update. Most of my systems do not have the system source = as I try to use generic kernels wherever possible. Freebsd-update is = much more convenient than a complete system rebuild.
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