From c602562d7b3fd3166a5d02c2091cf87e3e2de309 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick J Volkerding Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 04:38:27 +0000 Subject: Sat Dec 22 04:38:27 UTC 2018 a/coreutils-8.30-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt. Support tmux terms in DIR_COLORS. Thanks to qunying. a/grep-3.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-generic-4.19.12-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-huge-4.19.12-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-modules-4.19.12-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/sed-4.7-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. d/kernel-headers-4.19.12-x86-1.txz: Upgraded. d/rust-1.31.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. k/kernel-source-4.19.12-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded. l/graphite2-1.3.13-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. l/harfbuzz-2.3.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. l/imagemagick-6.9.10_19-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. l/lmdb-0.9.23-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. l/v4l-utils-1.16.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. n/netatalk-3.1.12-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. Netatalk before 3.1.12 is vulnerable to an out of bounds write in dsi_opensess.c. This is due to lack of bounds checking on attacker controlled data. A remote unauthenticated attacker can leverage this vulnerability to achieve arbitrary code execution. For more information, see: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1160 (* Security fix *) n/openldap-client-2.4.47-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. n/samba-4.9.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. x/intel-vaapi-driver-2.3.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt. kernels/*: Upgraded. usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt. --- README.initrd | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'README.initrd') diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index 914cccecd..def3a105b 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Thu Dec 20 03:58:05 UTC 2018 +Sat Dec 22 04:03:09 UTC 2018 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 4.19.11 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 4.19.12 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-4.19.11-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-4.19.11-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-4.19.12-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-4.19.12-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-8.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 4.19.11 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.12 -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 4.19.11 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 4.19.12 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.11 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.12 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? -- cgit v1.2.3-79-gdb01