possibly silly question regarding freebsd-update

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Hi,

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 11:01:20AM -0400, Karl Denninger wrote:
>
>It is not updating; as I noted it appears this security patch was NOT
>backported and thus 12.2-RELEASE does not "see" it.

ok, then I guess I need to post to -security? Because the notice
suggests that it was.

>You cannot go to "-STABLE" via freebsd-update; to run -STABLE you must
>be doing buildworld/buildkernel from source.  I can confirm that
>12.2-STABLE *does* have the patch as I checked it recently.

I know.

The reason I mentioned -STABLE at all was for the purpose of comparative
versioning of openssl. My 12-stable machines all update via source.
The issue I'm posting about concerns systems following 12.2-R that 
*only* use freebsd-update to keep up-to-date. These do not have sources 
installed. As you've mentioned, it seems the security patch was not 
backported.

thanks,
-- 
J.
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