From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 6 09:01:22 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE6B81065672 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2010 09:01:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from christer.solskogen@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f175.google.com (mail-qy0-f175.google.com [209.85.216.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A010A8FC14 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2010 09:01:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk9 with SMTP id 9so17104qyk.13 for ; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 02:01:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=ZSjDrrotSCBU+g7G7mlKhtLqzZEMhTSmCujm2NvU3NA=; b=cEyK0O9rbSvECEHExDRzJ9pq4XJmQNL1AIWvUzytdtoAFdbeysup/i4d2d/lyvTag4 6iwBfXbWsPqv1Nm8aLC0mdKim6K295B7/BJtSqei2l4w1L/0ZaPRoXndLGoZcVf5ZcEB G+nvOAVptmp18XdSI6ARgzCz6Fr89htTPj9zk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=I/49J0Sxx/kXloDGcfi1+ClgdAeFOP2f+VNYNxgCffJSAnnOQ7EeM5WDWpQ/YJAP1m XSgnuxc5xsQQmRY6kd6ex90ZCyQN8rn7tWe0OQjrecRpw1H0SDGOrdP4jA+M248Cy32H 3RRQiJw+gEINApOhHIzVj7bWHqsCy7yTKbxMQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.6.139 with SMTP id 11mr9297510qaz.233.1286354026946; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 01:33:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.223.143 with HTTP; Wed, 6 Oct 2010 01:33:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20101005211935.7e82acb3@davenulle.org> Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 10:33:46 +0200 Message-ID: From: Christer Solskogen To: Ed Flecko Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Confused about keeping system up to date 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: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 09:01:23 -0000 On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Ed Flecko wrote: > Thanks Patrick! > > :-) > > 1.) How do you know if a patch applies just to the kernel? For > example, I'm looking at the security advisory 2010-09-20 > FreeBSD-SA-10:08.bzip2 ( > http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:08.bzip2.asc ), > but it isn't clear to me if it applies to just the kernel or...??? > If you need to recompile the kernel, the security advisory will tell you to. And it dont in that particular advisory. -- chs,