Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 15:25:02 -0400 From: "Philip M. Gollucci" <philip@riderway.com> To: Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@rakhesh.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: No updates needed to update system to 6.2-RELEASE-p7? Message-ID: <46BA188E.5050606@riderway.com> In-Reply-To: <20070808230920.R53363@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> References: <20070808222628.B49848@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> <0B124FFF-D212-4373-9D58-9F65A1E4E64A@mac.com> <20070808230920.R53363@obelix.home.rakhesh.com>
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Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > > Chuck Swiger wrote: > >> Not all security patches involve updating the kernel. The recent ones have >> involved changes to BIND and the symlink attack starting up jails, and thus >> they do not result in the version printed by your kernel in dmesg or via >> uname changing. > > I see. Thanks. Didn't realize that only when the kernel gets updated does > the suffix change to -p7. I was under the impression that all updates > change the kernel string to -p7 just to show that there's been some > updates. That actually sounds like a bad thing IMHO. Because not -p4 is not -p4 -p4 = -p7 but for others it might =-p5 depending on the last time they updated. It might be nice to have freebsd-update update this portion of the kernel even if thats the only part thats updated. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Philip M. Gollucci (philip@riderway.com) 323.219.4708 Senior System Admin - Riderway, Inc. http://riderway.com 1024D/EC88A0BF 0DE5 C55C 6BF3 B235 2DAB B89E 1324 9B4F EC88 A0BF Work like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt, and dance like nobody's watching.home | help
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