Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 16:39:50 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Security patches and -p# Message-ID: <3F75F596.1080005@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20030926170241.GA2511@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <3F746917.4070603@potentialtech.com> <20030926170241.GA2511@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 12:28:07PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > >>Hey, >> >>I'm a bit confused, and it may just be a typo. >> >>I recently updated a bunch of servers to patch the arp problem recently >>announced: >>ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03%3A14.arp.asc >> >>Now, with the chaos in my life, plus getting physically ill during the last >>few days, I've not been 100% sure I finished the upgrade on all these >>machines, >>so I went around checking uname -a to make sure. >> >>Every single machine I upgraded says 4.8-RELEASE-p5 >> >>Now, the security advisory claims the problem is fixed in 4.8-RELEASE-p10. >> >>I know that I completely updated at least _some_ of these machines ;) >> >>Anyway. Is there a typo somewhere? Or am I misunderstanding the >>bulliten? > > It depends on how you obtained the updated source code. If you used > cvsup(1) to track the RELENG_4_8 branch, then you would have received > inter-alia patches to sys/conf/newvers.sh and other files that control > what the system says it's version number is. Well, I forgot to provide that information, but every one of these systems has been updated by cvsupping to RELENG_4_8, so I would have expected the version to update to p10. Are other people who track RELENG_4_8 seeing this? Or is just me? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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