On 09/08/2012 23:13, Glen Barber wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 03:31:25PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
>> > I realize that sysinstall is deprecated in favor of the new installer, but
>> > the new installer doesn't have the ability to install binary packages.
>> > Until and unless there's a convenie
So as far I understand, if the kernel is not updated by the update process, it
is not possible to get via "uname" the currently patch level.
I also read about put some syscall to return from the kernel the current patch
level, but still this solution is "bound" to the kernel modification, which
c
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Wesley Shields wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 10:34:06AM +, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 01:49:50PM +0200, Rainer Hurling wrote:
>> > Am 06.08.2012 10:03 (UTC+1) schrieb Doug Barton:
>> > >On 08/01/2012 05:09, Oliver Pinter wrote:
>> > >>
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Roberto wrote:
>
> So as far I understand, if the kernel is not updated by the update process, it
> is not possible to get via "uname" the currently patch level.
Correct.
This has been discussed a number of time, but there are no nice and
simple solution. There i
On 08/10/2012 09:35 PM, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote:
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> On 08/01/2012 05:09, Oliver Pinter wrote:
>> I found this today on FD:
>>
>> http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Aug/4
[..]
> Eh, why wouldn't a CVE name not be assigned? If none is we should ask
> MITRE to assign one, bu
On Aug 10, 2012, at 09:40 , Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Roberto wrote:
>>
>> So as far I understand, if the kernel is not updated by the update process,
>> it
>> is not possible to get via "uname" the currently patch level.
>
> Correct.
>
> This has been dis
On 08/10/2012 11:55 PM, Chris BeHanna wrote:
> Split off a version.ko and update that with each patch?
There is often no need to reboot the machine unless the kernel is
affected (just restart the affected daemons). Thus the information would
not necessarily match the userland status. The use
On 2012-08-10 16:40, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Roberto wrote:
>>
>> So as far I understand, if the kernel is not updated by the update process,
>> it
>> is not possible to get via "uname" the currently patch level.
>
> Correct.
>
> This has been discussed a n
