Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:01:37 +0100 From: xorquewasp@googlemail.com To: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update missed? Message-ID: <20080927120137.GA1128@logik.internal.network> In-Reply-To: <48DE1B4D.80608@freebsd.org> References: <20080926222711.GA74003@logik.internal.network> <48DD73A9.5000505@elischer.org> <20080926234727.GA60860@logik.internal.network> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0809262143130.3227@sea.ntplx.net> <20080927021709.GB60860@logik.internal.network> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0809270105450.3862@sea.ntplx.net> <20080927065227.GB4416@logik.internal.network> <48DE1B4D.80608@freebsd.org>
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On 20080927 04:38:53, Colin Percival wrote: > I missed the beginning of this thread, but looking back in the archives... > > 1. I'm very confident that FreeBSD Update is distributing the updated > libpthread.so. Right. > 2. If you run ident on the libpthread.so.2 which FreeBSD Update distributes, > or look at the src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_kern.c which FreeBSD Update > distributes, you'll see the old 1.116.2.1 RCS number. This is because > FreeBSD Update mimics "start with the released source code and then apply > the patches which are signed by the FreeBSD Security Officer" without a > detour through CVS -- that detour through CVS would be impossible, in fact, > since we build the binary updates before doing CVS (oops, SVN) commits. Ok! > 3. If you want to check that you have the latest libpthread.so for FreeBSD > 6.3, `sha256 /lib/libpthread.so.2` on an i386 system should print > SHA256 (/lib/libpthread.so.2) = > ff3fc6111331d5b64f939117daef176cc5c511362786ed6325a2333848e80573 Yes, seems I have the patched version. > 4. If your system claims to be running 6.3-RELEASE-p1 but says that there > are no updates needed to update to 6.3-RELEASE-p4, it probably means that > you installed the updated kernel which came with 6.3-RELEASE-p4 but you > haven't rebooted yet. That seems pretty likely. I tend to reboot on power outages when the UPS doesn't hold out... Thanks for this info. -- xw
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