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

[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.

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