I'm looking at upgrading a kernel from 2.4.20 to 2.4.24. I'm running a mandrake 9.2 system with lots of stuff server and client related.
Since this is a new thing for me (I generally stick within Kernel releases that come with a MDK distro) I was wondering if someone knew the general gotchas that might bite me (as it where).
I need to do this as a certain dvb package insists I need at least 2.4.23 to run. If it sounds too hard to resolve possible dependency issues, I'll change tack and try the back releases of the DVB s/w.
You would hope with the exploit in the Kernel that Mandrake would release a kernel updated to the latest!
I would be inclined to see if there is a Security Update MDK rpm which would solve all your issues.
Slackware has and their upgrades go very easy with this in mind without the need of compile anything unless you generally make your own kernel's in the first place.
David
TIA
Stu
-- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
