From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 27 12:01:42 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBFBC10656E4 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:01:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xorquewasp@googlemail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73AD38FC16 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:01:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xorquewasp@googlemail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so73528uge.39 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:01:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:date:from:to:cc :subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition:in-reply-to; bh=2nSWlmG4YPwAwaASmeOjKuvUIckXRWyq8hM/FgzuI0w=; b=irajI+tZgBVCbwDPSstaum8tkFXhtPRC1BWJV1xAjMXqMGD0F72HPvAnfokazvcSBI uyRZzU/NNvgKL2+zoEjqGSMJTTXZJIbgaGI+0j6RsiQulf/x9LJa+KjXA0cShLH/JYom 7uCjzpYdJwgbDmrV5rynFT08xC+XMsy0B3gBY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to; b=EkZkBEIsjdkmne1HarWvN1ucgwtivw+ZOdw7JPjMZiDiJ4rqGeB2dOGmzd+StAEGje u8BgZ0DzBGrXQ7ws8VbLnagHAk40oGbZ0VeadXLTVlHAPh+yShmoJAImWNtB+sOhpSDG utVZG5mRwoRQ+cb+CyXG5MWavdOgRXTM3jDcc= Received: by 10.210.124.15 with SMTP id w15mr2970001ebc.115.1222516901032; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:01:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from logik.internal.network ( [81.86.41.187]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm5532998eyb.1.2008.09.27.05.01.39 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:01:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by logik.internal.network (Postfix, from userid 11001) id A99CC60AA; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:01:37 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:01:37 +0100 From: xorquewasp@googlemail.com To: Colin Percival Message-ID: <20080927120137.GA1128@logik.internal.network> References: <20080926222711.GA74003@logik.internal.network> <48DD73A9.5000505@elischer.org> <20080926234727.GA60860@logik.internal.network> <20080927021709.GB60860@logik.internal.network> <20080927065227.GB4416@logik.internal.network> <48DE1B4D.80608@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48DE1B4D.80608@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update missed? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:01:43 -0000 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