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