Duane Winner wrote:
Hi,
Question about patch numbers and applying patches:
Last night, I got the openssl security advisory, and this morning am
starting to patch my servers.
I've always just done a make build world; make build kernel; make
install kernel; make install world when I've need to patch.
Today, however, I thought I would just try to do the patch on the
openssl libs as described in the advisory. I think it worked just
fine, but my question is this:
How do I keep track of which systems I've patched if I just do a
patch patchfile instead of the whole world/kernel thing?
uname -an still shows 6.2-RELEASE-p7 instead of p8; I use this to
keep track of which servers I've patched and which I haven't.
Is there a way to handle this?
Thanks,
DW
This seems to be a common question among the freebsd-update utility
users as well (like myself :)).
The short answer is, the p-something number changes only if you
recompile the kernel after such an update.
So, if you just need this change to be reflected in your uname -a
output, just make buildkernel / make installkernel
Manolis
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