possibly silly question regarding freebsd-update

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Hi,

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 12:52:59PM -0500, Doug McIntyre wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 05:54:03PM +0100, tech-lists wrote:
>> it just threw me that the thing-that-was-updated didn't update its
>> version information when queried. Absent sources, how can I tell it
>> was updated (apart from freebsd-version -u) ?
>
>Comparing what the SA patch says it is doing at
>https://security.freebsd.org/patches/SA-21:07/openssl-12.patch
>appears to be only update the libcrypto library and not the openssl wrapper itself, you can
>verify that after the 12.2-p5 patch was installed that the file
>
> /lib/libcrypto.so.111
>
>has been touched and is a newer date than what was on the machine prior to the patch.
>
>Yes, this takes some knowledge of the specific patch, and what parts
>contribute to what it is doing.
>
>I don't know the specific decisions on when RELEASE backports security
>patches vs. upgrading whole source trees.

Thanks for the clear explanation. 

-- 
J.
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