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Re: Meltdown update for jessie-backports kernel?



On Fri, 2018-01-19 at 17:06 +0100, Roland Moriz wrote:
> > * Alexander Wirt <formorer@formorer.de> [20180106 14:09]:
> > > On Sat, 06 Jan 2018, James Clarke wrote:
> > > > On 6 Jan 2018, at 12:38, Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> wrote:
> > > > > I realise there isn't a patch for the jessie standard kernel yet, but I
> > > > > assume backporting the stretch update wouldn't be that hard? Happy to
> > > > > hear I'm mistaken :-)
> > > > > 
> > > > > Anyway, any ETA?
> > > > 
> > > > It has already been uploaded and is sitting in the backports-NEW queue[0]
> > > > awaiting approval.
> > > 
> > > Half true, it is waiting for dinstall. I accepted it half an hour ago. 
> > 
> > linux-image-4.9.0-0.bpo.5-amd64 (4.9.65-3+deb9u2~bpo8+1) is now in
> > jessie-backports, but not yet a depencendy of linux-image-amd64 (I
> > have 4.9+80+deb9u2~bpo8+1), and thus not automatically installed.
> > 
> 
> 
> two things:
> 
> 1. uname -ar returns:
> 
> "4.9.65-3+deb9u2~bpo8+1 (2017-01-05) x86_64 GNU/Linux"
> (I guess 2017 is a typo.)

This is generated from debian/changelog, which indeed has the wrong
year.

> 2. Can we get the latest 4.9.77 backported to jessie-backports?

Do you see 4.9.77 in stretch?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
                                                      - Albert Einstein

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