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Re: security updates. What about Kernel patches



[Please don't top quote!  It makes your message harder to read,
especially in long threads.]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:03:47PM +0100, Greg Bolshaw wrote:
 
> Vincent Dupont wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm staring with Debian and find the security updates very usefull with
> >apt-get
> >It's very comfortable to keep one's packages up to date
> >But what happens when a package update concerns the Kernel? Should the
> >kernel be re-compiled or not?? is it automatically re-compiled?
>
> The kernel doesn't get upgraded with an `apt-get upgrade`, it must be 
> done manually:

Of course, you'll know about this immediately when you get a mail from
the debian-security-announce list which you've already subscibed to from
http://lists.debian.org/, right? :-)

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