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author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2020-06-03 20:21:52 +0000 |
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committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2020-06-04 08:59:54 +0200 |
commit | 51dac8e0d6d3193cb63563eb91a2cd6c8084e20d (patch) | |
tree | dff63b2d50f9c7f7545d0a893fd358db164038d3 /README.initrd | |
parent | 611a2c13b5943177c809540ee05d83bf10ae940a (diff) | |
download | current-51dac8e0d6d3193cb63563eb91a2cd6c8084e20d.tar.gz |
Wed Jun 3 20:21:52 UTC 202020200603202152
a/dbus-1.12.18-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-5.4.44-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.4.44-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.4.44-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/bison-3.6.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-5.4.44-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/subversion-1.14.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-5.4.44-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/harfbuzz-2.6.7-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/libcap-2.36-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/librsvg-2.48.6-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/gnutls-3.6.14-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
Fixed insecure session ticket key construction, since 3.6.4. The TLS server
would not bind the session ticket encryption key with a value supplied by
the application until the initial key rotation, allowing attacker to bypass
authentication in TLS 1.3 and recover previous conversations in TLS 1.2.
[GNUTLS-SA-2020-06-03, CVSS: high]
(* Security fix *)
n/iproute2-5.7.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/iptables-1.8.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/audacious-4.0.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/audacious-plugins-4.0.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
extra/pure-alsa-system/audacious-plugins-4.0.4-x86_64-1_alsa.txz: Upgraded.
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 9be7c462..57eb8892 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Thu May 28 18:00:07 UTC 2020 +Wed Jun 3 20:12:34 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 5.4.43 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.4.44 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-5.4.43-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.43-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.4.44-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.44-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 5.4.43 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.44 -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 5.4.43 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.4.44 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.43 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.44 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |