Re: How to find out which patches are in a "patchlevel"

From: Bruce A. Mah (bmah@FreeBSD.ORG)
Date: 04/29/02


To: "Galella, Anthony" <anthony.galella@intel.com>
From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 08:48:30 -0700

If memory serves me right, "Galella, Anthony" wrote:

> What I am trying to determine is the following: I want the machine to be
> on the same patch level as lets say 4.5 RELEASE-p3, where can I look (docs,
> code, whatever) to see WHICH patches are installed in patchlevel 3. (This
> way I can install just those patches on my system.)

If you just need to see at a high level what changes were made, you can
look at src/UPDATING for the appropriate security branch (in your
example above, this would be RELENG_4_5). One way to do this without
actually checking out said file is to explore this:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/UPDATING?only_with_tag=RELENG_4_5

This doesn't tell you exactly what diffs were applied to the other files
in src/, but it'll tell you what their effects were.

Good luck!

Bruce.

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