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Re: Proposed solution to openafs modules versioning problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy G Abbott)
Mon Apr 28 20:06:24 2008
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:05:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Timothy G Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
cc: athena10@mit.edu
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Well, we'd be holding back the user's kernel upgrade until we built our
kernels, so we best be sure that we have it happen soon, or we may be
keeping their kernel vulnerable longer than we should.
-Tim Abbott
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Anders Kaseorg wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 16:38 -0400, Greg Hudson wrote:
>> However, it does leave a window between when Ubuntu updates their
>> stuff and when we update ours.
>
> If we provide packages like this:
> Package: openafs-modules-generic
> Depends: openafs-modules-2.6.24-16-generic,
> linux-image-generic (= 2.6.24.16.18)
> then the kernel upgrade will be held back until openafs modules are
> available. This would make it less critical that this happens
> instantaneously.
>
> Anders
>
>
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