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Date:      Sun, 12 May 2002 12:19:17 +0200
From:      Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Patchlevel info
Message-ID:  <3CDE41A5.28125E16@cs.umu.se>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.33.0204301529160.23787-100000@bark.cs.umu.se> <20020510231750.GB7656@hades.hell.gr>

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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


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