Re: Security update of etch did not update my Kernel. Still vulnerable. Why???
On 18:09 Sun 09 Mar , Mike Bird wrote:
> On Sun March 9 2008 11:40:57 Mitchell Laks wrote:
> > On 13:57 Sun 09 Mar , Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > > Do you have the linus-image-2.6 meta-package installed? If you only
> > > have an actual linux-image deb installed, it will never be upgraded.
> > > The meta-package will always depend on the most recent version and will
> > > be updated at the time that the new version is added to the repository.
> > >
> > > The "standard" way of handling this is to use aptitude to install the
> > > linux-image-2.6 meta-package which will bring in everything upon which
> > > it depends. Once you are running the new kernel without errors, you can
> > > start to remove older kernels manually from within aptitude.
> >
> > I use apt not aptitude ( :( ). I am used to it.
> > When I try to do
> > apt-get install linux-image-2.6 it tell me that it is a virtual package
> > provided by (the long list of packages).
> > " You should explicitly select one to install ".
>
> Sorry Mitchell, there was a slight mistake in the advice given to you.
> You should not install linux-image-2.6 but rather linux-image-2.6-486
> or linux-image-2.6-686 (or one of the other variants) whichever is
> appropriate for your processor.
>
> This will cause future kernel security updates to be installed as
> expected when you "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade".
>
> --Mike Bird
Dear Mike,
I just installed linux-image-2.6-486 as you suggested, to correspond to my
new kernel 2.6.24-1-486.
The apt-get install script says
linux-image-2.6-486 is already the newest version.
linux-image-2.6-486 is set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly instlalled 0 to remove and 1023 not upgraded.
what does the "set to manually installed mean"?
Mitchell
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