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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2023-05-01 20:22:43 +0000 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2023-05-01 23:41:10 +0200 |
| commit | 01f5c1cc791c79e9919a859891ede7d2f4a62ad1 (patch) | |
| tree | 446883e3c34a86e86df0c383878148dd772dad0e /README.initrd | |
| parent | af89c2d6e832aae11b2e7e23a90e150a924ee016 (diff) | |
| download | current-01f5c1cc791c79e9919a859891ede7d2f4a62ad1.tar.gz current-01f5c1cc791c79e9919a859891ede7d2f4a62ad1.tar.xz | |
Mon May 1 20:22:43 UTC 202320230501202243
a/kernel-generic-6.1.27-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-6.1.27-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-6.1.27-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/pciutils-3.10.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/utempter-1.2.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-6.1.27-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-6.1.27-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/libsoup3-3.4.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/libwpg-0.3.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/qca-2.3.6-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/gnupg2-2.4.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/netatalk-3.1.15-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This update fixes security issues, including a critical vulnerability that
allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations
of Netatalk. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.
For more information, see:
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-43634
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-45188
(* Security fix *)
xap/audacious-4.3.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/audacious-plugins-4.3.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
xfce/thunar-4.18.6-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
Diffstat (limited to 'README.initrd')
| -rw-r--r-- | README.initrd | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index 81b0f8dfc..c4ed87d56 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Thu Apr 27 04:29:27 UTC 2023 +Mon May 1 20:08:13 UTC 2023 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 6.1.26 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 6.1.27 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-6.1.26-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-6.1.26-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-6.1.27-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-6.1.27-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-32.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 6.1.26 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 6.1.27 -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 6.1.26 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 6.1.27 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 6.1.26 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 6.1.27 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |