Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 20:48:17 +0200 From: Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> To: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Follow up....Re: Updating for the FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-12:01.openssl Message-ID: <4FA2D2F1.3080706@eskk.nu> In-Reply-To: <20120503183539.GA48057@ozzmosis.com> References: <4FA2BAB3.4080007@eskk.nu> <4FA2BD91.2070402@eskk.nu> <20120503183539.GA48057@ozzmosis.com>
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2012-05-03 20:35, andrew clarke skrev: > On Thu 2012-05-03 19:17:05 UTC+0200, Leslie Jensen (leslie@eskk.nu) wrote: > >> After a reboot my system now has the following label >> >> FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 #0 >> >> How come it downgrades the label from p6 to p3 when upgrading to p7. > > This is a FAQ. There's a thread about it here: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-June/217031.html > > Short answer: The patch level (-p3) displayed by uname -r after a > reboot will not change if freebsd-update has not touched the kernel. > > As far as I know there haven't been any patches to the 8.2-REL kernel > since -p3. > > /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh is always updated by freebsd-update when > there is an update. (Although now that I think about it that might not > be true if you don't have the kernel sources installed?) > > Not exactly intuitive. > > Several Linux distros have a file named /etc/issue that shows the > distro name and version. Perhaps this or something similar could be > provided in future FreeBSD releases and updated by freebsd-update. > > $ cat /etc/issue > Ubuntu 12.04 LTS \n \l > > Regards > Andrew > _______________________________________________ > 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" Thank you :-) I have read similar answers and was partly aware of this. But I was just curious to why. I'll accept it and let a kernel rebuild be a part of my updates. /Leslie
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