No updates needed to update system to 8.2-RELEASE-p6 but still on 8.2-RELEASE-p3

[Leslie Jensen]

RW skrev 2012-02-19 13:59:
> On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:22:57 +0000
> Matthew Seaman wrote:
>
>
>> Four possibilities, roughly in order of severity:
>>
>>     1) None of the security patches between p3 and p6 did actually
>>        touch the kernel.  You can tell if this was the case by looking
>>        at the list of modified files in the security advisory.  The
>>        kernel is affected if any files under sys have been
>>        modified other than src/sys/conf/newvers.sh
>>
>>        The last advisory that did touch the kernel was
>>        http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-11:05.unix.asc
>>
>>        which should have given you 8.2-RELEASE-p4.  However -- see
>>        below.
>
> But aren't all those changes the linux kernel module, rather than the
> kernel itself.
>
> I think  8.2-RELEASE-p3 looks OK.
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I don't know if it's the solution to your question but I asked the same 
a while back and the answer I got was that I had to recompile and 
install the kernel then you'll have p6 :-)

/Leslie