From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 19 12:59:05 2012 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 869EA106566B for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:59:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-we0-f182.google.com (mail-we0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C20C8FC08 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:59:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by werm13 with SMTP id m13so4312095wer.13 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 04:59:03 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of rwmaillists@googlemail.com designates 10.180.102.35 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.180.102.35; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of rwmaillists@googlemail.com designates 10.180.102.35 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=rwmaillists@googlemail.com; dkim=pass header.i=rwmaillists@googlemail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.180.102.35]) by 10.180.102.35 with SMTP id fl3mr9511541wib.22.1329656343927 (num_hops = 1); Sun, 19 Feb 2012 04:59:03 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=x/lAqNL5JhEHCzH3+HB8ghPNqZQk4Dm6jMNe2uEng0A=; b=I4sgur5Q9f1UftzthmYNIg1XM30p7j3eni68jfMkzrNruWgOU8UPwRa0QaidDozgtQ 4NT8Qt9Y6W0hPHug/AZwTkiU2lj4HP5gubRZwz0HCBZHe+yYwzCKuZDO45L0zUzuLBnj zAfGXWS36hwFlgUDxlxYc2Q8zgHNm9vtKptn8= Received: by 10.180.102.35 with SMTP id fl3mr8003725wib.22.1329656343867; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 04:59:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (87-194-105-247.bethere.co.uk. [87.194.105.247]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id er8sm24188101wib.1.2012.02.19.04.59.01 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 19 Feb 2012 04:59:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:59:00 +0000 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120219125900.37a08c5d@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <4F40CD81.1000708@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <201202190204.q1J24gJx080884@mail.r-bonomi.com> <4F40CD81.1000708@infracaninophile.co.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: No updates needed to update system to 8.2-RELEASE-p6 but still on 8.2-RELEASE-p3 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: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:59:05 -0000 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.