From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 12 3:19:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tninet.se (lennier.tninet.se [195.100.94.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51FE737B405 for ; Sun, 12 May 2002 03:19:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cs.umu.se (h146n1c1o1023.bredband.skanova.com [213.64.164.146]) by lennier.tninet.se (BMR ErlangTM/OTP 3.0) with ESMTP id 975115.198874.1021.1s32564031lennier ; Sun, 12 May 2002 12:21:14 +0200 Message-ID: <3CDE41A5.28125E16@cs.umu.se> Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 12:19:17 +0200 From: Paul Everlund X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: sv,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Patchlevel info References: <20020510231750.GB7656@hades.hell.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On 2002-04-30 16:12, Paul Everlund wrote: > > Do anyone know how to know when a new patch level is released? > > Is it on the FreeBSD web-server somewhere? > > You can always CVSup to the latest version of a ``security branch''. > This is the same as the respective -RELEASE version, but includes what > security fixes have been announced since the date of the release. Thanks for your reply! Is every new security fix, that is FreeBSD-specific, generating a new p-level? That is, if current level is p4, and a new se- curity bug is found in FreeBSD and fixed, do this fix increase the level to p5? Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message