Re: Re: kernel security patches

Debian will do something similar, unless you've built your own kernel. 
Then it's up to you to update/patch...


Sean

On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 18:58, Bill Spears wrote:
> 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.
-- 
Sean Whitney <[email protected]>

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