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author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2021-05-26 20:00:32 +0000 |
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committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2021-05-27 08:59:55 +0200 |
commit | 45dee3ba77755824f2f23bb8fae10822f74ec025 (patch) | |
tree | a9a1ff9f069d2d019a0c1559c486d4ebea2b72e0 /README.initrd | |
parent | b913726b939032d0a3aa7656f27bb4e022f36104 (diff) | |
download | current-45dee3ba77755824f2f23bb8fae10822f74ec025.tar.gz |
Wed May 26 20:00:32 UTC 202120210526200032
a/kernel-generic-5.10.40-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.10.40-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.10.40-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-5.10.40-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-5.10.40-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/librsvg-2.50.6-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/python-urllib3-1.26.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/ca-certificates-20210526-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
This update provides the latest CA certificates to check for the
authenticity of SSL connections.
n/curl-7.77.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This update fixes security issues:
schannel cipher selection surprise
TELNET stack contents disclosure
TLS session caching disaster
For more information, see:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-22297
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-22298
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-22901
(* Security fix *)
n/net-snmp-5.9.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/nftables-0.9.9-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/libinput-1.17.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
testing/packages/linux-5.12.x/kernel-generic-5.12.7-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
testing/packages/linux-5.12.x/kernel-headers-5.12.7-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
testing/packages/linux-5.12.x/kernel-huge-5.12.7-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
testing/packages/linux-5.12.x/kernel-modules-5.12.7-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
testing/packages/linux-5.12.x/kernel-source-5.12.7-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
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diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index 341787c3..f356d4a2 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Sat May 22 19:13:38 UTC 2021 +Wed May 26 19:37:39 UTC 2021 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 5.10.39 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.10.40 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-5.10.39-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.10.39-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.10.40-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.10.40-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-24.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 5.10.39 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.40 -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 5.10.39 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.10.40 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.39 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.40 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |