Re: Re: kernel security patches

On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 14:08, [email protected] wrote:
> Carla Schroder writes: 
> 
> > I'm so confused. :) And feeling like a bit of a dunce, after all these years 
> > of using Linux. How do distributions handle applying kernel security patches? 
> > Like Debian and Red Hat? None of my machines have kernel sources. I use 
> > up2date on Red Hat boxes, and of course have the usual security sources in my 
> > Debian sources.list. So are my kernels getting updated or not? 
> > 
> 
> I believe that it greatly depends upon the versions which you're updating 
> and how your preferences are set. 
> 
> I believe, and this is after much head scratching, that by default up2date 
> on Redhat versions I've used (7.3 and older) will *not* update your kernel, 
> even if it does download the kernel rpms.  I have no experience with Debian. 
> 
> Some quick googling on the subject yielded: 
> 
> http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=194098
> http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/howto/kernel-upgrade/
> 
> Hope this is helpful. 
> 
In Fedora, it installs the new kernel, makes it the default boot option
in grub, but leaves all the old ones as boot options in grub.  I seem to
remember red hat doing the same.
-- 
Bill Spears <[email protected]>