Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:11:09 +0100 From: Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No updates needed to update system to 8.2-RELEASE-p6 but still on 8.2-RELEASE-p3 Message-ID: <4F40F4ED.4090704@eskk.nu> In-Reply-To: <20120219125900.37a08c5d@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <CAJ5UdcOobT8jmUM7KpweU1sjie4P8HvQcA0vNMQdO66ZTHXHkA@mail.gmail.com> <201202190204.q1J24gJx080884@mail.r-bonomi.com> <CAJ5UdcO%2Bx6oEuEWL4%2Bfh1TanEv1vCCnOSi%2BaZ-bcQBsehuqKsA@mail.gmail.com> <4F40CD81.1000708@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20120219125900.37a08c5d@gumby.homeunix.com>
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RW skrev 2012-02-19 13:59: > On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:22:57 +0000 > Matthew Seaman wrote: > > >> Four possibilities, roughly in order of severity: >> >> 1) None of the security patches between p3 and p6 did actually >> touch the kernel. You can tell if this was the case by looking >> at the list of modified files in the security advisory. The >> kernel is affected if any files under sys have been >> modified other than src/sys/conf/newvers.sh >> >> The last advisory that did touch the kernel was >> http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-11:05.unix.asc >> >> which should have given you 8.2-RELEASE-p4. However -- see >> below. > > But aren't all those changes the linux kernel module, rather than the > kernel itself. > > I think 8.2-RELEASE-p3 looks OK. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I don't know if it's the solution to your question but I asked the same a while back and the answer I got was that I had to recompile and install the kernel then you'll have p6 :-) /Leslie
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