The patches are released. The way that it works is that when you `emerge` your kernel sources the package manager downloads the sources, untars to /usr/src/, and automatically applies the patches provided by the Gentoo kernel team. AFAIK, Gentoo does not patch older kernel versions when a new one has been marked stable in Portage (which is quite often).
With this, you could acquire the patch used for a newer version and apply it to your existing sources, but my point was this is a lot of manual work that is unnecessary in distributions such as Debian. On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby <miham...@gulfsat.mg> wrote: >> Jordan Metzmeier <titan8...@gmail.com> : >> Lets just take this example: A new vulnerability is found in kernels >> below version X. In debian often the kernel will get patched to fixed >> said vulnerability and can be installed via the package manager. If it >> were a Gentoo box the administrator of the machine would either have >> to patch his existing kernel manually and recompile or upgrade to a >> new kernel version (which could require reconfiguration prior to >> recompilation). > > Really? The gentoo distribution does not release it's kernel patch set, > just the way the other distributions do? > > -- > Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: > Administration Systeme, Recherche & Developpement > +261 34 29 155 34 / +261 33 11 207 36 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100222204928.792c1...@pbmiha.malagasy.com > > -- Jordan Metzmeier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50e5edd51002221008g63c1eda6wee9a9749d28cc...@mail.gmail.com
