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On Samstag, 31. März 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: |
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> On Saturday 31 March 2007 00:55:10 Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> > Having gotten rather tired of doing this |
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> > manually... again... I went into /etc/portage/package.mask and added |
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> > |
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> > >sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5 |
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> > |
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> > It won't hurt me now, but is there anything that might depend on newer |
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> > kernels? It's assumed I'll upgrade when required by a security alert. |
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> > Other than that, how long can I get away between kernel upgrades? |
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> Just watch your GLSAs, and you should be fine. If a package depends on a |
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> certain kernel version, it will list that in it's depend line, and emerge |
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> will complain that it can't satisfy that dependency. |
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Well, there are many security related kernel bugs (just read the Changelogs of |
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the .18, .19 and .20 'stable' releases), but hardly any kernel GLSAs. It |
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looks like kernels are not covered by GLSAs. |
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