No updates needed to update system to 8.2-RELEASE-p6 but still on 8.2-RELEASE-p3

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Sun Feb 19 12:59:05 UTC 2012


On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:22:57 +0000
Matthew Seaman wrote:


> Four possibilities, roughly in order of severity:
> 
>    1) None of the security patches between p3 and p6 did actually
>       touch the kernel.  You can tell if this was the case by looking
>       at the list of modified files in the security advisory.  The
>       kernel is affected if any files under sys have been
>       modified other than src/sys/conf/newvers.sh
> 
>       The last advisory that did touch the kernel was
>       http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-11:05.unix.asc
> 
>       which should have given you 8.2-RELEASE-p4.  However -- see
>       below.

But aren't all those changes the linux kernel module, rather than the
kernel itself. 

I think  8.2-RELEASE-p3 looks OK.


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