Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 17:37:03 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: "Stevan Tiefert" <stevan_tiefert@yahoo.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Patching with freebsd-update from 6.2-RELEASE-p4 to 6.2-RELEASE-p5 Message-ID: <d7195cff0707091537h32797efcj196c49e6dca53164@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1184014776.1863.4.camel@vagabund.w33> References: <1184014776.1863.4.camel@vagabund.w33>
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On 09/07/07, Stevan Tiefert <stevan_tiefert@yahoo.de> wrote: > Hello list, > > I wanted to update via freebsd-update from 6.2-RELEASE-p4 to > 6.2-RELEASE-p5. But like you can see my system is after the update still > p4! > > I have saved a script of my doing: > > Script started on Mon Jul 9 22:55:13 2007 > vagabund# freebsd-update fetch > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found. > Fetching metadata signature from update1.FreeBSD.org... done. > Fetching metadata index... done. > Inspecting system... done. > Preparing to download files... done. > > No updates needed to update system to 6.2-RELEASE-p5. > vagabund# freebsd-update install > No updates are available to install. > Run '/usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch' first. > vagabund# uname -a > FreeBSD vagabund.w33 6.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Thu Apr > 26 17:40:53 UTC 2007 > root@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > vagabund# exit > exit > > Script done on Mon Jul 9 22:55:45 2007 > $ > > > What is going wrong? Why he is not updating? http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:04.file.asc -p5 only affects one utility in userland, and not the kernel. So the kernel at -p4 is itself ostensibly secure and doesn't need to be updated. -- --
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