On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 14:20 +0530, Vidyadhar Gadgil wrote: > Ok, so that's why menu.lst looks the same. The time stamp was for the > day I updated, so that means it has updated the kernel, right? > > The vmlinux file in /boot has date stamp of the day I installed etch, > but the initrd.img file has the date stamp for the update. So everything > is okay, right, and the security fix was nicely applied?
to really check to see what version of 2.6.18-4-ARCH you have dpkg -l | grep linux-image should get you lines like: ii linux-image-2.6.18-4-k7 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch1 Linux 2.6.18 image If you see the "2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch1" you are on Etch security update for <package> number 1, in this case linux-image. I run the k7 variant. That is a standard, by appending "etch#" we can ensure that dpkg will install the newer version than straight package names without "etch#" on it. This also scales well to have multiple security releases over time. Woody and Sarge both used this method. I don't remember if Potato or earlier did, as I didn't pay as much attention to "packaging". -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05 Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C Alternate Fingerprint: 09F9 1102 9D74 E35B D841 56C5 6356 88C0
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