Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 09:35:20 +0400 (GST) From: Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@rakhesh.com> To: "Philip M. Gollucci" <philip@riderway.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: No updates needed to update system to 6.2-RELEASE-p7? Message-ID: <20070809092552.K93573@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> In-Reply-To: <46BA188E.5050606@riderway.com> References: <20070808222628.B49848@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> <0B124FFF-D212-4373-9D58-9F65A1E4E64A@mac.com> <20070808230920.R53363@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> <46BA188E.5050606@riderway.com>
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Philip M. Gollucci wrote: >> I see. Thanks. Didn't realize that only when the kernel gets updated does >> the suffix change to -p7. I was under the impression that all updates >> change the kernel string to -p7 just to show that there's been some >> updates. > That actually sounds like a bad thing IMHO. Because not -p4 is not -p4 > -p4 = -p7 but for others it might =-p5 depending on the last time they > updated. > > It might be nice to have freebsd-update update this portion of the > kernel even if thats the only part thats updated. I second that. Was confusing to me atleast, and I kept wondering all this file if something was wrong with my setup. Would be nice if the kernel was given a version bump to -p7 or whatever. Maybe its not possible for other practical reasons, in which perhaps the man page could mention this fact? By the way, is there some way I can verify that my system has been patched for the newer updates? (Just so that I get the nagging feeling off my head that something's not alright). Some way I can check the named executable for instance to see its the latest ...? Thanks, Rakhesh
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