FC5 kernel updates

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Tue Apr 18 05:03:31 UTC 2006


On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 12:59:58AM -0400, Tom Diehl wrote:
 > On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Dave Jones wrote:
 > 
 > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 08:22:15AM +1000, Bojan Smojver wrote:
 > >  > Maybe slightly off topic here (not sure)...
 > >  > 
 > >  > Are there plans to bump up FC5 kernels to 2.6.16.6, given that several
 > >  > stable kernel updates contained security fixes? Or is FC5 unaffected by
 > >  > the ones mentioned in kernel release notes (i.e. wrong arch, features
 > >  > that are not compiled, already patched by FC specific patches etc.)?
 > > 
 > > It's compiling right now. Should be out today/tomorrow.
 > 
 > Will this have fixes for bug 186628 and if so is it going to be released for
 > FC4 as well?

Right now the priority is getting something out to fix up all the security
holes that became public in the last week.   Once this is done, I'll be
taking a pass through bugzilla, as things have really piled up over the
last few weeks.

		Dave

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