From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 12 18:08:31 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90A0516A46C for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:08:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org) Received: from szalbot.homedns.org (lists.lc-words.com [83.19.156.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4806D13C4E3 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:08:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org) Received: from www by szalbot.homedns.org with local (Exim 4.67 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1I935S-000C0U-GG for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:08:22 +0200 To: Freebsd questions X-PHP-Script: https://poczta.szalbot.homedns.org/index.php for 192.168.11.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:08:22 +0200 From: Zbigniew Szalbot Message-ID: X-Sender: zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.1b Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Freebsd-update and Freebsd Security Advisory X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:08:31 -0000 Dear all, I hope you can help me understand various ways to patch FBSD system. Today I got a FreeBSD Security Advisory which advised me to apply libarchive.patch. Which I did. All went file. But then I issued freebsd-update fetch and the system fetched two metapatches or so. I went ahead and installed them (it took less than a second) so don't know if they were really installed. I guess these were the same patches for libarchive. I think I am doing a bad thing mixing these two patching systems. What should I do now? Should I go back and revert some changes? FreeBSD szalbot.homedns.org 6.2-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p5 #3: Wed Jul 4 08:21:48 CEST 2007 root@szalbot.homedns.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SZALBOT i386 When I issue freebsd-update fetch, I get Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature from update1.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Inspecting system... done. Preparing to download files... done. No updates needed to update system to 6.2-RELEASE-p6. Am I safe to continue patching the system either way or should I keep only to one? Many thanks for your advice! Warm regards, Zbigniew Szalbot