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author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2020-11-18 21:40:31 +0000 |
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committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2020-11-19 08:59:52 +0100 |
commit | f6a74b16d215620be5ccee5d1d8154214d3d209a (patch) | |
tree | 728b6856d0f9d36e4ba084382cb9b5b096cc6d01 /README.initrd | |
parent | 272467a60bb9c300bdb0ba546ff821498ec27904 (diff) | |
download | current-f6a74b16d215620be5ccee5d1d8154214d3d209a.tar.gz |
Wed Nov 18 21:40:31 UTC 202020201118214031
a/kernel-generic-5.4.78-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.4.78-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.4.78-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/cmake-3.19.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-5.4.78-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-5.4.78-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/imagemagick-7.0.10_39-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/libjpeg-turbo-2.0.6-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/gnupg2-2.2.24-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/mozilla-thunderbird-78.5.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This release contains security fixes and improvements.
For more information, see:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/78.5.0/releasenotes/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-52/
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-26951
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16012
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-26953
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-26956
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-26958
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-26968
(* Security fix *)
xap/ssr-0.4.2-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled to use Qt5 instead of Qt4.
xfce/thunar-1.8.16-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
Diffstat (limited to 'README.initrd')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index 79479782..c200a976 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Wed Nov 11 22:53:53 UTC 2020 +Wed Nov 18 21:30:39 UTC 2020 This document describes how to create and install an initrd, which may be required to use the 4.x kernel. Also see "man mkinitrd". @@ -33,15 +33,15 @@ flexible to ship a generic kernel and a set of kernel modules for it. The easiest way to make the initrd is to use the mkinitrd script included in Slackware's mkinitrd package. We'll walk through the process of -upgrading to the generic 5.4.77 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.4.78 Linux kernel using the packages found in Slackware's slackware/a/ directory. First, make sure the kernel, kernel modules, and mkinitrd package are installed (the current version numbers might be a little different, so this is just an example): - installpkg kernel-generic-5.4.77-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.77-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.4.78-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.78-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-15.txz Change into the /boot directory: @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ Now you'll want to run "mkinitrd". I'm using ext4 for my root filesystem, and since the disk controller requires no special support the ext4 module will be the only one I need to load: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.77 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.78 -m ext4 This should do two things. First, it will create a directory /boot/initrd-tree containing the initrd's filesystem. Then it will @@ -61,10 +61,10 @@ you could make some additional changes in /boot/initrd-tree/ and then run mkinitrd again without options to rebuild the image. That's optional, though, and only advanced users will need to think about that. -Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.4.77 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.4.78 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.77 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.78 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |