On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 03:22 -0600, Scott Edwards wrote: > Is it normal to upgrade a kernel for a security update, but the module > package, eg drbd8 on amd64 vserver kernel, is not updated too? How > are the security updated kernels recompiled that do not need the > modules recompiled too? That depends on whether the update changes the kernel ABI (the interface exposed to modules). Debian adds a numeric suffix to the upstream kernel version to indicate ABI changes, which appears in binary package names and in the kernel version reported by "uname -r". External modules must be rebuilt whenever the kernel ABI changes and the ABI number will also be included in their binary package names. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Logic doesn't apply to the real world. - Marvin Minsky
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