freebsd-update missed?

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On 20080927 04:38:53, Colin Percival wrote:
> I missed the beginning of this thread, but looking back in the archives...
>
> 1. I'm very confident that FreeBSD Update is distributing the updated
> libpthread.so.

Right.

> 2. If you run ident on the libpthread.so.2 which FreeBSD Update distributes,
> or look at the src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_kern.c which FreeBSD Update
> distributes, you'll see the old 1.116.2.1 RCS number.  This is because
> FreeBSD Update mimics "start with the released source code and then apply
> the patches which are signed by the FreeBSD Security Officer" without a
> detour through CVS -- that detour through CVS would be impossible, in fact,
> since we build the binary updates before doing CVS (oops, SVN) commits.

Ok!

> 3. If you want to check that you have the latest libpthread.so for FreeBSD
> 6.3, `sha256 /lib/libpthread.so.2` on an i386 system should print
> SHA256 (/lib/libpthread.so.2) = 
> ff3fc6111331d5b64f939117daef176cc5c511362786ed6325a2333848e80573

Yes, seems I have the patched version.

> 4. If your system claims to be running 6.3-RELEASE-p1 but says that there
> are no updates needed to update to 6.3-RELEASE-p4, it probably means that
> you installed the updated kernel which came with 6.3-RELEASE-p4 but you
> haven't rebooted yet.

That seems pretty likely. I tend to reboot on power outages when the UPS
doesn't hold out...

Thanks for this info.

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xw