Re: [Cooker] Mdk8 kernel security upgrade notes

[guran]

On Saturday 01 September 2001 06:15, Vincent Danen wrote:


> In light of the fact that it seems unrealistic to ask people to read
> advisories prior to installation, I'm going to ask the rpmdrake
> maintainer to have rpmdrake automatically reject any attempts to
> install a kernel using it.  Or, at the very least, have a
> configuration switch that defaults to NO that suicidal users who wish
> to force rpmdrake to do it can switch to YES manually knowing full
> well the repercussions of doing so.

This is a wise way to enlighten the newcomer, and I support  steps in this 
direction.

MandrakeUpdateRobot has something similar where the installer can 'sew up' a 
way to treat kernel updates for everybody on a LAN that uses that program.

regards
guran
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Mandrake 8.0 kernel 2.4.7-12.3