From 85535b49c47cc8cec1dd802c716155e08a75aeb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick J Volkerding Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 22:00:05 +0000 Subject: Fri Jul 31 22:00:05 UTC 2020 a/kernel-generic-5.4.55-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-huge-5.4.55-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-modules-5.4.55-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. ap/sysstat-12.4.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. d/cmake-3.18.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. d/kernel-headers-5.4.55-x86-1.txz: Upgraded. d/python-pip-20.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. d/re2c-2.0.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. d/rust-1.45.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. k/kernel-source-5.4.55-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded. l/libvpx-1.9.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. l/mozjs60-60.9.0esr-x86_64-1.txz: Removed. l/mozjs68-68.11.0esr-x86_64-1.txz: Added. IMPORTANT: This is needed for polkit-0.117. l/polkit-0.117-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. x/libX11-1.6.10-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. xap/mozilla-thunderbird-68.11.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/68.11.0/releasenotes/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-35/ https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15652 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6514 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6463 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15659 (* Security fix *) 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 383448311..0bc921f72 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Wed Jul 29 19:22:25 UTC 2020 +Fri Jul 31 21:50:15 UTC 2020 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 5.4.54 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.4.55 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-5.4.54-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.54-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.4.55-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.55-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-15.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 5.4.54 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.55 -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 5.4.54 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.4.55 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.54 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.55 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? -- cgit v1.2.3