Re: NSA software in Debian

[Andrew Merenbach <andrew@merenbach.com>]

On Jan 22, 2014, at 9:59 AM, Kevin Olbrich <kolbrich@dolphin-it.de> wrote:

Wouldn't this mean there is an error message? The patch could work with a newer kernel in general (?).

I did not try it but are there so many changes between both releases?

Hi Kevin,

I just tried this an Debian with kernel 3.2.51 in a VM and while it succeeds (as it did in my primary install), the patch version may indeed be mismatched, which I definitely missed before.  Bold formatting added by me:

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Best,

Andrew