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author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2022-03-28 19:33:46 +0000 |
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committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2022-03-29 06:59:44 +0200 |
commit | d48b3dea7888fc6e194df1ca985338f95530c610 (patch) | |
tree | 5bd46c357c2b498073aab885690d6b2f28db46ea /README.initrd | |
parent | 3e5df2ef049ccdbfa62be7f61584878ca2d52083 (diff) | |
download | current-d48b3dea7888fc6e194df1ca985338f95530c610.tar.gz |
Mon Mar 28 19:33:46 UTC 202220220328193346
a/kernel-generic-5.17.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.17.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.17.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/util-linux-2.38-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
ap/cups-filters-1.28.13-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-5.17.1-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-5.17.1-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/shared-mime-info-2.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/zlib-1.2.12-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This update fixes memory corruption when deflating (i.e., when compressing)
if the input has many distant matches. Thanks to marav.
For more information, see:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-25032
(* Security fix *)
n/epic5-2.1.7-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/libgcrypt-1.10.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/s-nail-14.9.24-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/libwacom-2.2.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
Diffstat (limited to 'README.initrd')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index b3ad35a7..16816898 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Mon Mar 21 16:27:22 UTC 2022 +Mon Mar 28 19:22:41 UTC 2022 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 5.17 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.17.1 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-5.17.0-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.17.0-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.17.1-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.17.1-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-28.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 5.17 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.17.1 -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 5.17 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.17.1 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.17 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.17.1 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |