On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 09:55:19AM -0800, Ben Hartshorne wrote: > What's the deal with the X.X.XXpreXX kernels as opposed to the X.X.XX > kernels? Which one is more recent? How would I figure that out? (I'm > looking at 2.2.19 and 2.2.19pre17)
2.2.19pre17 is what potato shipped with. You should be using 2.2.19. The pre versions are the older ones. > Do either of these kernels contain the patch against the local root > exploit mentioned on slashdot on october 19 > (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/19/141229&mode=thread)? How > would I find out? Where should I get the patch? What is the debian way > to apply such a patch (patch < my_patch.diff?)? Nope, neither of them is patched. The best way to patch them is: apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.19 cd /usr/src bzcat kernel-source-2.2.19.tar.bz2 | tar -x cd kernel-source-2.2.19 patch < /path/to/my/patch make xconfig make-kpkg --revision hostname.1 --uc --us -rfakeroot buildpackage That last line assumes that you have the kernel-package deb installed, and will build a kernel-image, kernel-headers, kernel-doc, and kernel-source .deb's from your source tree. I usually name my revisions hostname.revision, but you can call them whatever you want. make make-kpkg for more info. M
