I'm so confused. :) And feeling like a bit of a dunce, after all these years of using Linux. How do distributions handle applying kernel security patches? Like Debian and Red Hat? None of my machines have kernel sources. I use up2date on Red Hat boxes, and of course have the usual security sources in my Debian sources.list. So are my kernels getting updated or not?
I believe that it greatly depends upon the versions which you're updating and how your preferences are set.
I believe, and this is after much head scratching, that by default up2date on Redhat versions I've used (7.3 and older) will *not* update your kernel, even if it does download the kernel rpms. I have no experience with Debian.
Some quick googling on the subject yielded:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=194098
http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/howto/kernel-upgrade/
Hope this is helpful.
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