RE: Kernel patching

["Mark Tinka" <mtinka at africaonline.co.ug>]

Well, typically your distro's website should have the update package, in
both RPM and Source RPM format.

If you download the RPM, a simple "rpm -Fvh kernel-package-name.rpm" or
"rpm -Uvh kernel-package-name.rpm" should do just fine. You can then rerun
LILO to update your kernel configuration - /sbin/lilo

If you download the Source RPM, you can install it with the command:

rpm -ivh kernel-package-name.src.rpm

This installs the source files typically located in /usr/src/linux/. You can
then use the normal kernel build commands to compile your kernel:

make menuconfig; make depend; make bzImage; make modules; make
modules_install

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Mark Tinka - CCNA
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-afnog at afnog.org [mailto:owner-afnog at afnog.org]On Behalf Of
David Chima
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 4:54 PM
To: afnog at afnog.org
Subject: Kernel patching


Hello Afnog,
I use Redhat Linux 7.2. I have found some package vulnerabilities on the
Redhat site
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh72-errata.html and one of these is the
kernel. I need to
update some of these packages that I use on my machine including the kernel.
I tried
to use up2date but I was told that up2date wasnt registerd. I am told I can
use the
source rpms and then compile the kernel. I would like to find out what
should I do
inorder to update the kernel and the other packages that have the
vulnerabilities.
I was advised not to update the rpms with (--nodeps).

What should I begin with?

Regards

David

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