Confused about keeping system up to date

Christer Solskogen christer.solskogen at gmail.com
Wed Oct 6 09:01:23 UTC 2010


On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Ed Flecko <edflecko at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Patrick!
>
> :-)
>
> 1.) How do you know if a patch applies just to the kernel? For
> example, I'm looking at the security advisory 2010-09-20
> FreeBSD-SA-10:08.bzip2 (
> http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:08.bzip2.asc ),
> but it isn't clear to me if it applies to just the kernel or...???
>

If you need to recompile the kernel, the security advisory will tell
you to. And it dont in that particular advisory.
-- 
chs,


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