Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 04:56:15 +1000 From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> To: Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Follow up....Re: Updating for the FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-12:01.openssl Message-ID: <20120503185615.GA50654@ozzmosis.com> In-Reply-To: <4FA2D2F1.3080706@eskk.nu> References: <4FA2BAB3.4080007@eskk.nu> <4FA2BD91.2070402@eskk.nu> <20120503183539.GA48057@ozzmosis.com> <4FA2D2F1.3080706@eskk.nu>
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On Thu 2012-05-03 20:48:17 UTC+0200, Leslie Jensen (leslie@eskk.nu) wrote: > > Short answer: The patch level (-p3) displayed by uname -r after a > > reboot will not change if freebsd-update has not touched the kernel. ... > 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. If you're running the GENERIC kernel then you're only creating extra work for yourself by rebuilding it for the sole purpose of having uname -r show the "correct" patchlevel... On the other hand if you're running a custom kernel then you only need to rebuild the kernel when freebsd-update touches the kernel sources. I don't recall the kernel was touched at all with the most recently -p7 patch (openssl), for example, so there's absolutely no need to rebuild it. Apologies if this was already obvious. Regards Andrew
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