From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 19 13:11:13 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 92A241065670 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:11:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leslie@eskk.nu) Received: from mx1.bjare.net (mx1.bjare.net [212.31.160.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 153058FC08 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:11:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 228635E1D2; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:11:12 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mx1.bjare.net X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.479 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.479 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.121, BAYES_00=-2.599, SPF_PASS=-0.001] Received: from mx1.bjare.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx1.bjare.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id q6dCOYWttKmk; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:11:10 +0100 (CET) X-BN-MX1: ja X-BN-MailInfo: BjareNet Received: from [172.17.0.140] (c-195-216-040-164.static.bjare.net [195.216.40.164]) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10CE35E1A8; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:11:09 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4F40F4ED.4090704@eskk.nu> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:11:09 +0100 From: Leslie Jensen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120208 Thunderbird/10.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: RW References: <201202190204.q1J24gJx080884@mail.r-bonomi.com> <4F40CD81.1000708@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20120219125900.37a08c5d@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20120219125900.37a08c5d@gumby.homeunix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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 13:11:13 -0000 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