Re: Kernel Security Updates for Sarge

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 10:50:59AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Horms wrote:
> >   ia64: version in Sarge: 2.6.8-12
> >   http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/kernel/trunk/kernel/ia64/kernel-image-2.6.8-ia64-2.6.8/debian/changelog?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
> 
> Will -14 will be an ABI change from -12 or not?
> 
> >   m68k: version in Sarge: 2.6.8-12
> >   http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/kernel/trunk/kernel/m68k/kernel-image-2.6.8-m68k-2.6.8/debian/changelog?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
> 
> Since svn has version -1, it's hard to tell. However AFAIK nothing
> actually uses this unless it's installed by hand.
> 
> >   powerpc: version in Sarge: 2.6.8-12
> >   http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/kernel/trunk/kernel/powerpc/kernel-patch-powerpc-2.6.8-2.6.8/debian/changelog?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
> 
> Some of the config changes in -16 look like they could break d-i. Only
> one of those modules needs to be in a udeb and we'll have to start
> changing linux-kernel-di. I didn't check them all but fdomain and
> fdomain_cs are both in udebs. Does not seem appropriate for a security
> update.

Notice that they may have been in .udebs, but they had unresolved symbols, so
where unusable in any case, and fixing those doesn't seem to be trivial or
even easy, since they use the isa code which is non-exitent ot broken on
powerpc (or so benh and hch tell me, so ...).

Friendly,

Sven Luther