Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:48:10 -0700 From: Joe <j.harman@f5.com> To: <freebsd-doc@freebsd.org> Subject: how to read security advisories Message-ID: <etPan.530d0f9a.6b8b4567.3ab2@shiny.int.lineratesystems.com>
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Hello, I am having trouble understanding the "Corrected" version strings in security advisories. Could you tell me (or point me to documentation about) what the "-p" extensions mean? For instance, in the "How to read security advisories" page (http://www5.us.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security-advisories.html), there is an example of a list of corrected builds, which contains several lines like "2003-09-23 20:08:42 UTC (RELENG_5_1, 5.1-RELEASE-p6)" I understand what 5.1-RELEASE means, but I cannot find references for what the tailing "-p6" means. In this example, if I am running FreeBSD 5.1, do I already have the fix? How can I tell? I have searched the web for the answer, as well (not easy when looking for "-p"), and have had no luck discovering what the -p extension means. Apologies if this is the wrong address to be sending this question to, but security advisories are the only place I've seen this notation, so I was hoping to get an explanation for it when I read the "how to read" page, but I didn't…and the bottom of the page says to email this address for questions about this document. Could you point me in the right direction? Thank you, - Joe Harmanhelp
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