Re: Latest Kernel Update

On 01/18/2018 12:22 PM, Ed Fletcher via slackware wrote:
> I got the notification email for the update to kernel 4.4.111 (to patch 
> for Spectre and Meltdown) on the Slackware Security mailing list a 
> couple of days ago.  Some errors got through in the email that are 
> repeated on the Slackware Security Advisories website:
> 
> http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2018&m=slackware-security.1191628 
> 
> 
> For example:
> 
> ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/packages/patches/packages/linux-4.4.111/kernel-firmware-20180104_65b1c68-noarch-1.txz 
> 
> 
> should be:
> 
> ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/packages/linux-4.4.111/kernel-firmware-20180104_65b1c68-noarch-1.txz 
> 
> 
> The error is repeated in all patches for Slackware 14.2 and Slackware 
> x86_64 14.2.  Easy enough to correct when downloading but it will likely 
> confuse some users.
> 
> I didn't know where to report this so I thought I'd send to this list 
> and hope that whoever maintains the Security Advisories website will see 
> it.
> 
> Ed

This list is not very active these days. I believe the best place to put 
this is the Slackware forums on Linux Questions.

<https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/>

Bob McConnell
N2SPP

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