Thanks, Ed, but where do I find this? uname -a" gives me stable/13-007101f87. For a while I was seeing a hyphenated number prefixed with a 'c' and I had assumed that that number was the sequence. The full hash from the logs just is a long hex number. As usual with git stuff, I'm still very confused. After decades with a common paradigm with RCS CVS and SVN, git is fundamentally very different and old terminology does not really align as git is designed from a very different perspective.
I have read the little mini-guide Warner wrote as well as a couple of web tutorial, but the web tutorials are really about running your own repo on github or gitlab, not using a repo as a source for distributions. I'm still a long way from having a real clue. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 12:06 PM Ed Maste <ema...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 at 12:35, Kevin Oberman <rkober...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > In the svn days, I could just look at my svn revision to check on > whether a > > security patch was required. Now I have a git hash. I have no idea how to > > tell if my system running 13-STABLE of a few days ago has the patch. > > Thanks for posting this question. I see some useful information in > other replies to this thread and we'll want to make sure that makes > its way to appropriate documentation. > > For future advisories we should also report the commit count > associated with the fix; this is a monotonically-increasing number and > is reported in the uname. > > If you build stable/13 right now you would get > "stable/13-n244668-4664afc05402", and the fix in > 894360bacd42f021551f76518edd445f6d299f2e corresponds to n244572. > 244668 being larger than 244572 indicates that the fix is included. > > These counts are not unique across different branches; you can only > compare counts for the same branch. > _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"