From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 26 18:07:11 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F55916A421 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:07:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jlalarcon@gawab.com) Received: from rfallback.ya.com (rfallback.ya.com [62.151.4.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D29B13C458 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:07:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jlalarcon@gawab.com) Received: from [192.168.1.192] (helo=smtpauth.ya.com) by rfallback.ya.com with esmtp id 1I3F1t-0002lp-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:40:41 +0200 Received: from [84.79.187.101] (helo=Endeavour.lordofunix.org) by smtpauth.ya.com with asmtp id 1I3F1r-0007Vb-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:40:39 +0200 Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:40:29 +0200 From: Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20070626194029.bb75ebd9.jlalarcon@gawab.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.0beta7 (GTK+ 2.10.13; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: patches for the 6.2-RELEASE kernel X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:07:11 -0000 Hi Folks. I am FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE user. i'm learning FreeBSD. Some times, i see people have a system named 6.2-RELEASE-pxx, where xx is a number. I know that -pxx are security patches, or not only security and too are patches for solve bugs?. My dude is: is very convenient have upgraded the kernel to this patches. I'm a home user, not a bussiness. Nothing "important" depend on my system. My second dude is: how is the "upgrade" process?, are there this patch files in any concrete web site and the user must download it and apply?, are there any "automatized" mechanism for get it?. One last question, what is the number of the last patch applied?. Thanks you very much, in advance. Regards. Jose. -- http://www.lordofunix.org/ Not Registered GNU/Hurd User. Registered BSD User 51101. Registered Linux User #213309. Memories..... You are talking about memories. Rick Deckard. Blade Runner.