From 77f88b0dea14e6a62e402b8e8d28cffd18cb4ad4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Allan Jude Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 03:03:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Better explain how patchlevels (9.2-RELEASE-p4) work in the security advisory section of the handbook PR: docs/187465 Submitted by: Lowell Gilbert (original version) Approved by: eadler (mentor) --- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.xml | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.xml index 06667c7301..07ff1dff1b 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.xml @@ -3383,7 +3383,15 @@ UWWemqWuz3lAZuORQ9KX The Corrected field indicates the date, time, time offset, and releases that were - corrected. + corrected. The section in parentheses shows each branch + to which the fix has been merged, and the version number + of the corresponding release from that branch. The + release identifier itself, includes the version number + and, if appropriate, the patch level. The patch level is + the letter p followed by a number, + indicating the sequence number of the patch, allowing + users to track which patches have already been applied to + the system.