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Re: Kernel date stamp?



Incoming from Will Trillich:
> On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 04:07:26PM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> > Incoming from Danny O'Brien:
> > > 
> > > We updated the kernel this weekend using apt-get update followed by 
> > > apt-get <kernel ver>. However, uname-a delivers the following response:
> > > 
> > > Linux mail 2.4.18-686 #1 Sun Apr 14 11:32:47 EST 2002 i686 unknown
> > > 
> > > Why is this kernel dated April, 2002? Is this the most recent version?
> > 
> > Old kernel.  I have:
> > 
> > Linux infidel 2.4.18-1-686 #1 Wed Apr 14 18:20:10 UTC 2004 i686 unknown
> > 
> > This has all the known security fixes applied to the stable version of
> > the kernel.
> 
> and to get it, your sources.list contains--what? :)

Stock, stable, Woody:

deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ woody main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.rfc822.org/debian-security/ stable/updates main contrib non-free

among others.  "apt-cache search kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686"


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