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| author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2018-07-12 01:50:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2018-07-12 21:00:37 +0200 |
| commit | ed7e9fe9c2c97215596d12888a7adc4a572a243b (patch) | |
| tree | 9d18d75875177afa66edf95f7b2f3e49ac1c72f6 /README.initrd | |
| parent | cc2d429ab3734ba7a54b9e2bbbf8d0657e5b9c2d (diff) | |
| download | current-ed7e9fe9c2c97215596d12888a7adc4a572a243b.tar.gz | |
Thu Jul 12 01:50:07 UTC 201820180712015007
a/kernel-generic-4.14.55-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-4.14.55-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-4.14.55-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-4.14.55-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/rust-1.27.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-4.14.55-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/bind-9.13.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This update fixes security issues:
Fixed a bug where extraordinarily large zone transfers caused several
problems, with possible outcomes including corrupted journal files or
server exit due to assertion failure.
Don't permit recursive query service to unauthorized clients.
For more information, see:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-5738
(* Security fix *)
n/curl-7.61.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This update fixes a buffer overflow in SMTP send.
For more information, see:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-0500
(* Security fix *)
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
Diffstat (limited to 'README.initrd')
| -rw-r--r-- | README.initrd | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index 8df15b89..b6ed715e 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Mon Jul 9 19:39:17 UTC 2018 +Thu Jul 12 01:21:42 UTC 2018 This document describes how to create and install an initrd, which may be required to use the 4.x kernel. Also see "man mkinitrd". @@ -33,15 +33,15 @@ flexible to ship a generic kernel and a set of kernel modules for it. The easiest way to make the initrd is to use the mkinitrd script included in Slackware's mkinitrd package. We'll walk through the process of -upgrading to the generic 4.14.54 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 4.14.55 Linux kernel using the packages found in Slackware's slackware/a/ directory. First, make sure the kernel, kernel modules, and mkinitrd package are installed (the current version numbers might be a little different, so this is just an example): - installpkg kernel-generic-4.14.54-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-4.14.54-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-4.14.55-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-4.14.55-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-7.txz Change into the /boot directory: @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ Now you'll want to run "mkinitrd". I'm using ext4 for my root filesystem, and since the disk controller requires no special support the ext4 module will be the only one I need to load: - mkinitrd -c -k 4.14.54 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.14.55 -m ext4 This should do two things. First, it will create a directory /boot/initrd-tree containing the initrd's filesystem. Then it will @@ -61,10 +61,10 @@ you could make some additional changes in /boot/initrd-tree/ and then run mkinitrd again without options to rebuild the image. That's optional, though, and only advanced users will need to think about that. -Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 4.14.54 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 4.14.55 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 4.14.54 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.14.55 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |