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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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  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-01 12:53 UTC|newest]

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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