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Slackware 12.2: Important Kernel Update SSA:2009-231-01 Released

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Calendar Grey August 20, 2009
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Kernel revision for Slackware 12.2 tackling vulnerabilities and enhanced setups. Comprehensive information on the incorporated patches provided.

This is a followup to the SSA:2009-230-01 advisory noting some errata

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/linux-2.6.27.31/kernel-modules-smp-2.6.27.31_smp-i686-2.tgz: Rebuilt the modules using the config-generic-smp-2.6.27.31-smp .config. patches/packages/linux-2.6.27.31/kernel-generic-smp-2.6.27.31_smp-i686-2.tgz: Fixed the .config to use config-generic-smp-2.6.27.31-smp. The config-generic-huge-2.6.27.31-smp was mistakenly used for build -1. Thanks to Chuck56 for the report. patches/packages/linux-2.6.27.31/kernel-source-2.6.27.31_smp-noarch-2.tgz: Changed the included .config to the config-generic-smp-2.6.27.31-smp version. patches/packages/svgalib_helper-1.9.25_2.6.27.31-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz: Recompiled for 2.6.27.31.

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Where Find New Packages

HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com? Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading directly from ftp.slackware.com.
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you.
Updated kernel packages for Slackware 12.2 may be found here: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.2/patches/packages/linux-2.6.27.31/kernel-modules-smp-2.6.27.31_smp-i686-2.tgz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.2/patches/packages/linux-2.6.27.31/kernel-generic-smp-2.6.27.31_smp-i686-2.tgz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.2/patches/packages/linux-2.6.27.31/kernel-source-2.6.27.31_smp-noarch-2.tgz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the kernel packages as root, rebuild the initrd with mkinitrd, and reinstall LILO. For details on the process of updating the Slackware 12.2 kernels, see the README file in /patches/packages/linux-2.6.27.31/.

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