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author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2020-07-31 22:00:05 +0000 |
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committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2020-08-01 08:59:52 +0200 |
commit | 85535b49c47cc8cec1dd802c716155e08a75aeb4 (patch) | |
tree | 6cfcc3bf07cfbf2c1bdcc280ae8c134096023a13 /README.initrd | |
parent | 7256a0c44b82c629923794c30a0b5a19e7e20718 (diff) | |
download | current-85535b49c47cc8cec1dd802c716155e08a75aeb4.tar.gz |
Fri Jul 31 22:00:05 UTC 202020200731220005
a/kernel-generic-5.4.55-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.4.55-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.4.55-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
ap/sysstat-12.4.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/cmake-3.18.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-5.4.55-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/python-pip-20.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/re2c-2.0.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/rust-1.45.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-5.4.55-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/libvpx-1.9.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/mozjs60-60.9.0esr-x86_64-1.txz: Removed.
l/mozjs68-68.11.0esr-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
IMPORTANT: This is needed for polkit-0.117.
l/polkit-0.117-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/libX11-1.6.10-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/mozilla-thunderbird-68.11.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This release contains security fixes and improvements.
For more information, see:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/68.11.0/releasenotes/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-35/
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15652
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6514
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6463
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15659
(* Security fix *)
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
Diffstat (limited to 'README.initrd')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index 38344831..0bc921f7 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Wed Jul 29 19:22:25 UTC 2020 +Fri Jul 31 21:50:15 UTC 2020 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 5.4.54 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.4.55 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-5.4.54-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.54-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.4.55-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.55-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-15.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 5.4.54 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.55 -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 5.4.54 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.4.55 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.54 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.55 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |