From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 14:48:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200704011448.18361.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <460FBFF9.8060503@gmail.com>
On Sonntag, 1. April 2007, b.n. wrote:
> Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto:
> > In almost every kernel release a security problem is found, that is fixed
> > in a stable release.
>
> Stable release? AFAIK, *all* 2.6.x releases are stable releases.
No, they aren't. There are the 'normal' releases (for example 2.6.20) and
the 'stable' releases which fix important bugs and security holes (like, for
example 2.6.20.2).
> The
> days of double trees (2.4.x and 2.5.x) are gone.
Today we have at least 4 trees.
Linus.
Morton.
The 'stable releases' (2.6.XY.Z)
Bunk's 2.6.16.XY
> > Which risk? Which mess? There is not a risk, if you use oldconfig.
>
> oldconfig doesn't always work well between major releases (2.6.x vs
> 2.6.x+1).
>
I works like a charm for me....
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-31 5:55 [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels? Walter Dnes
2007-03-31 8:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-04-02 5:02 ` Walter Dnes
2007-04-02 8:37 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-03-31 10:05 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-03-31 11:06 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-03-31 11:03 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-03-31 16:05 ` b.n.
2007-03-31 14:11 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-04-01 14:21 ` b.n.
2007-04-01 12:48 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin [this message]
2007-04-01 22:51 ` b.n.
2007-04-01 21:35 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-04-01 22:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-04-02 5:35 ` Walter Dnes
2007-04-02 8:38 ` Neil Bothwick
[not found] ` <200704130133.49396.bo.andresen@zlin.dk>
[not found] ` <20070413005947.27416382@hactar.digimed.co.uk>
2007-04-13 0:11 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-04-13 7:40 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-04-16 13:00 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-04-16 13:06 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-04-16 13:48 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-04-13 22:49 ` Anthony E. Caudel
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