Re: security fixes for woody sparc kernels?

["Kevin B. McCarty" <kmccarty@Princeton.EDU>]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Ben Collins wrote:

> I uploaded 2.5.24 (or was it 2.4.25?). It should be in proposed-updates.

I found a package of kernel-image-2.4.24-sparc64, version 34.woody.1.  
(Is this the one you meant?)  But trying to install it gives a large 
number of depmod errors:

alcyone[23]:~# dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.24-sparc64_34.woody.1_sparc.deb
Selecting previously deselected package kernel-image-2.4.24-sparc64.
(Reading database ... 8501 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking kernel-image-2.4.24-sparc64 (from kernel-image-2.4.24-sparc64_34.woody.1_sparc.deb) ...
Setting up kernel-image-2.4.24-sparc64 (34.woody.1) ...
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.24-sparc64/kernel/arch/sparc64/solaris/solaris.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.24-sparc64/kernel/crypto/aes.o
[many lines of errors snipped...]
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.24-sparc64/kernel/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.o
There was a problem running depmod.  This may be benign, 
(You may have versioned symbol names, for instance).
Or this could be an error.
	depmod exited with return value 1
In any case, since depmod is run at install time, 
we could just defer running depmod
Would you like to abort now? [Yes] yes


Looks like it's been filed at http://bugs.debian.org/234442 .  Should I be 
worried, or go ahead and install it?

thanks,

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