Hello
Emil H�gerlund (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> one simple (?) question...
>
> I'm doing a new "stable" install on a AMD server
> (SCSI and IDE disks) and can't figure out
> what the difference is between the kernel-image-
> 2.4.18-k7 and 2.4.18-1-k7 packages?
>
> Why theese two variants?
kernel-image-2.4.18-1-k7 is an updated version fixing several security
problems. I think the new name was chosen because the first kernel
update (of several ones) which fixed the ptrace bug was incompatible to
modules compiled for the old kernel. See DSA-311-1 for more
information.
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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