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

2012-02-19 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 06:00:50PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 19/02/2012 17:49, Nikola Pavlović wrote: > > If it will feel you more confident that everything is OK, I too have -p3 > > reported from the kernel, but -p6 in newvers.sh. I remember a > > discussion shortly after FreeBSD-SA-11:05

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

2012-02-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 19/02/2012 17:49, Nikola Pavlović wrote: > If it will feel you more confident that everything is OK, I too have -p3 > reported from the kernel, but -p6 in newvers.sh. I remember a > discussion shortly after FreeBSD-SA-11:05-unix (maybe on > freebsd-security@ but I'm not sure) about this confusi

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

2012-02-19 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 05:17:59AM -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: > On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Matthew Seaman > wrote: > > Here is the thing I alluded to under option (1).  The security patch for > > the unix domain socket problem came out in two chunks.  There was an > > original patch to f

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

2012-02-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 19/02/2012 11:17, Antonio Olivares wrote: > I hope this is the case, but that -p3 makes me think? I am hesistant > to move to 9.0-RELEASE as of yet. There will apparently be an > 8.3-RELEASE and I am not sure whether I have to rebuild all ports if I > update to newer release. I have read some

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

2012-02-19 Thread RW
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:11:09 +0100 Leslie Jensen wrote: > > > I don't know if it's the solution to your question but I asked the > same a while back and the answer I got was that I had to recompile > and install the kernel then you'll have p6 :-) The only thing you gain by that is that uname r

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

2012-02-19 Thread Leslie Jensen
RW skrev 2012-02-19 13:59: On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:22:57 + 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

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

2012-02-19 Thread RW
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:22:57 + 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

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

2012-02-19 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 19 February 2012 18:17:59 Antonio Olivares wrote: > > I hope this is the case, but that -p3 makes me think? I am hesistant > to move to 9.0-RELEASE as of yet. There will apparently be an > 8.3-RELEASE and I am not sure whether I have to rebuild all ports if I you could adapt my s

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

2012-02-19 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 19/02/2012 02:06, Antonio Olivares wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Robert Bonomi >> wrote: >>> >>> Antonio, >>>  The 'upgrade' from _P5_ to P6 did not touch the kernel, hence the kernel ID >>> did not change. >>> >>>  Going f

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

2012-02-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 19/02/2012 02:06, Antonio Olivares wrote: > On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Robert Bonomi > wrote: >> >> Antonio, >> The 'upgrade' from _P5_ to P6 did not touch the kernel, hence the kernel ID >> did not change. >> >> Going from P3 you should have seen a kernel update. >> >> what do you s

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

2012-02-18 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > Antonio, >  The 'upgrade' from _P5_ to P6 did not touch the kernel, hence the kernel ID > did not change. > >  Going from P3  you should have seen a kernel update. > >  what do you see if you do "strings /boot/kernel/kernel |grep 8" It is

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

2012-02-18 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear kind folks, I am getting more and more as to what is needed to keeping a system running in optimum conditions(updating ports & userland too). I was just updating ports, but neglecting the new userland tools & kernels. I have successfully run make buildworld & make installworld, and the steps