From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 8 18:44:16 2007 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 AC44E16A469 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 18:44:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out4.apple.com (mail-out4.apple.com [17.254.13.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95B1413C478 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 18:44:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay6.apple.com (relay6.apple.com [17.128.113.36]) by mail-out4.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73B8BE3B632; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 11:44:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay6.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay6.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 5EC4A100D0; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 11:44:16 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 11807124-a6fbbbb0000007f3-69-46ba0f00b21d Received: from [17.214.13.96] (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay6.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 52EF2100B8; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 11:44:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20070808222628.B49848@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> References: <20070808222628.B49848@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <0B124FFF-D212-4373-9D58-9F65A1E4E64A@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 11:44:15 -0700 To: Rakhesh Sasidharan X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No updates needed to update system to 6.2-RELEASE-p7? 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, 08 Aug 2007 18:44:16 -0000 On Aug 8, 2007, at 11:33 AM, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > No updates needed to update system to 6.2-RELEASE-p7. > > $ uname -a > FreeBSD asterix 6.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Thu Apr > 26 17:40:53 > UTC 2007 root@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ > GENERIC i386 > > Is that normal? I mean, there obviously seems to be a 6.2-RELEASE- > p7 but then why isn't my system getting updated to that? Is it coz > I am not using the parts that are affected by the patches to 6.2- > RELEASE-p7? Or have I misconfigured something? Not all security patches involve updating the kernel. The recent ones have involved changes to BIND and the symlink attack starting up jails, and thus they do not result in the version printed by your kernel in dmesg or via uname changing. -- -Chuck