Re: Updating from custom linux-source-2.6.18-2.6.18.dfsg.1-23etch1 to lastest 2.6.18 kernel by appying the diff file from Etch's linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 ?

[Vianney Lejeune <via.lej@free.fr>]

> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > 	I have a custom linux-source-2.6.18-2.6.18.dfsg.1-23etch1 (just
> > > > patched for hardware support etc). I'm concerned with the lastest
> > > > CVE-2009-2692 so I would like to update my kernel. As it was a  
> > > > lot of
> > > > work to apply the hardware patches to the initial Etch's linux-
> > > > source,
> > > > I wonder if it's possible to update my already-patched-for- 
> > > > hardware-
> > > > support-2.6.18-linux-source by applying the diff file from the
> > > > lastest
> > > > linux-image-2.6.18 package available for Etch ?
> > >
> > > Linux 2.6.18 in etch has not yet been updated to fix this.  There  
> > > is a
> > > proposed patch at <http://bugs.debian.org/541403#10> but I don't  
> > > know
> > > whether it is correct.
> >
> > Thank you for your reply. But technically, let's suppose that a new
> > linux 2.6.18's Debian package is released. Can I directly apply the
> > whole linux-2.6.18's diff file available from the Debian package
> > webpage (http://packages.debian.org/etch/linux-image-2.6.18-6-486) to
> > my custom linux-source-2.6.18-2.6.18.dfsg.1-23etch1 to update my
> > kernel with all the fixes from my kernel's version to the lastest ?
>
> No, the diff also contains all previous bug fixes.  You would need to
> unpack the source package and look in debian/patches/bugfix to get a
> specific fix patch.

So if I want to update to get all the bugfixes until now, I have to  
apply the diff file from the lastest Etch's kernel webpage to my 2  
years' old custom kernel source and I'm done ?

Thanks a lot,
Vianney