Kernel update for FC1?

[Karl Hudnut]

Hi Simon,

Thanks. Thanks many!

Does everyone know that the critical kernel patches have been available at 
kernel.org for some time? I downloaded and ran the normal compile steps
(make menuconfig, make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install) copied 
the resulting image into the /boot dir, edited grub and rebooted. It 
works. It's tedious though. What it buys you is your machine is patched 
while waiting for the Fedora Legacy RPMs. 

We would all like to just use yum or apt and if I had the time to really
learn rpmbuild I'd contribute more. My wife wouldn't kill me. (I wish I
had one to threaten that.) Instead of that, my excuse is I have my
research priorities.

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Simon Weller wrote:
> It very much depends on the particular patch. Some are very easy, some
> take a fair bit of time.
> Now that I've done the redhat 7.3 kernel packages, I plan to have redhat
> 9 specs patched tonight and left to rebuild during the early hours.
> 
> I apologize for the slowness, it's just time consuming and if I spend
> any more time on it my wife will kill me ;-)
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> > > 
> > >>There's the recent local security hole found in the Kernel, and updates are 
> > >>available for virtually all Linux distros except for (gulp) Fedora Core 1... 
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Dr. Karl Hudnut       System Administrator      UCAR - COSMIC
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