No updates needed to update system to 6.2-RELEASE-p7?

[Rakhesh Sasidharan]

Chuck Swiger wrote:

> Not all security patches involve updating the kernel.  The recent ones have 
> involved changes to BIND and the symlink attack starting up jails, and thus 
> they do not result in the version printed by your kernel in dmesg or via 
> uname changing.

I see. Thanks. Didn't realize that only when the kernel gets updated does 
the suffix change to -p7. I was under the impression that all updates 
change the kernel string to -p7 just to show that there's been some 
updates.

Thanks again.

Regards,
Rakhesh