svn commit: r44894 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security
Allan Jude
allanjude at FreeBSD.org
Wed May 21 03:03:39 UTC 2014
Author: allanjude
Date: Wed May 21 03:03:39 2014
New Revision: 44894
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/44894
Log:
Better explain how patchlevels (9.2-RELEASE-p4) work in the security advisory
section of the handbook
PR: docs/187465
Submitted by: Lowell Gilbert (original version)
Approved by: eadler (mentor)
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.xml Wed May 21 02:59:51 2014 (r44893)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.xml Wed May 21 03:03:39 2014 (r44894)
@@ -3383,7 +3383,15 @@ UWWemqWuz3lAZuORQ9KX
<listitem>
<para>The <literal>Corrected</literal> field indicates the
date, time, time offset, and releases that were
- corrected.</para>
+ corrected. The section in parentheses shows each branch
+ to which the fix has been merged, and the version number
+ of the corresponding release from that branch. The
+ release identifier itself, includes the version number
+ and, if appropriate, the patch level. The patch level is
+ the letter <literal>p</literal> followed by a number,
+ indicating the sequence number of the patch, allowing
+ users to track which patches have already been applied to
+ the system.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
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