Patching with freebsd-update from 6.2-RELEASE-p4 to 6.2-RELEASE-p5

Stevan Tiefert stevan_tiefert at yahoo.de
Tue Jul 10 13:51:33 UTC 2007


Am Montag, den 09.07.2007, 17:37 -0500 schrieb illoai at gmail.com:
> On 09/07/07, Stevan Tiefert <stevan_tiefert at yahoo.de> wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I wanted to update via freebsd-update from 6.2-RELEASE-p4 to
> > 6.2-RELEASE-p5. But like you can see my system is after the update still
> > p4!
> >
> > I have saved a script of my doing:
> >
> > Script started on Mon Jul  9 22:55:13 2007
> > vagabund# freebsd-update fetch
> > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found.
> > Fetching metadata signature from update1.FreeBSD.org... done.
> > Fetching metadata index... done.
> > Inspecting system... done.
> > Preparing to download files... done.
> >
> > No updates needed to update system to 6.2-RELEASE-p5.
> > vagabund# freebsd-update install
> > No updates are available to install.
> > Run '/usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch' first.
> > vagabund# uname -a
> > FreeBSD vagabund.w33 6.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Thu Apr
> > 26 17:40:53 UTC 2007
> > root at i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> > vagabund# exit
> > exit
> >
> > Script done on Mon Jul  9 22:55:45 2007
> > $
> >
> >
> > What is going wrong? Why he is not updating?
> 
> http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:04.file.asc
> 
>  -p5 only affects one utility in userland, and not the kernel.
> So the kernel at -p4 is itself ostensibly secure and doesn't
> need to be updated.
> 

Thanks. Normally I did everytime a buildworld and buildkernel and the
uname -a was everytime changed. And now I was feared something gone
wrong. Thanks again :-)





	
		
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