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Cloney
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 Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 12:50 pm Post subject: Latest Gentoo Sources - is r3 actually different from r2? |
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According to the changelog, there's some bugfixes. However, the ebuild for r3 uses exactly the same files as r2 in the same manner as r2, and the resulting kernel calls itself r2 on bootup.
All modules are installed to 2.4.22-gentoo-r2, etc... what's going on here? Is there a subtle difference I'm failing to see, or has something gone boink?
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vdboor
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I'm not a developer, so I can't answer your question fully.
However, the reason for the version number can be explained quite easily: in /usr/src/linux/Makefile you'll see a few version variables. They form the kernel version you see, and the place where "make modules_install" installs the modules. In your case, the EXTRAVERSION has been set to -gentoo-r2 
I'm not not sure whether this is a bug in the ebuild, or you have indeed, -r2.
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Carlo
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| Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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google for rtc vulnerability
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Cloney
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| Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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Have done. I've also checked the 2.4.22-r2 ebuild, which also applies the RTC patch, so I don't see the difference.
| Code: | root@tron gentoo-sources # diff gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r2.ebuild gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r3.ebuild
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< # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r2.ebuild,v 1.3 2004/01/06 15:17:52 plasmaroo Exp $
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> # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r3.ebuild,v 1.1 2004/01/06 20:55:12 plasmaroo Exp $
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< http://dev.gentoo.org/~iggy/gentoo-sources-${PVR}.patch.bz2"
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> http://dev.gentoo.org/~iggy/gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r2.patch.bz2"
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< bzcat ${DISTDIR}/gentoo-sources-${PVR}.patch.bz2 | patch -p1 \
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> bzcat ${DISTDIR}/gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r2.patch.bz2 | patch -p1 \ |
It seems that the ebuild for 2.4.22-r3 specifically requests the -r2 stuff instead of using the autodetecty script that r2 used. Hence it's just installing r2 again.
Sorry if I seem like a pain, I just have a strange insistence on understanding what I'm doing.
EDIT: Ah, think I've sussed it - the RTC fix was backported to -r2 as well? Seems odd, given the bump of -r3 into stable. The last sync I did seems to have given me a slightly updated ebuild (v1.2), and the -r3 name problem's fixed. Ta.
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Carlo
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| Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Cloney wrote: | | EDIT: Ah, think I've sussed it - the RTC fix was backported to -r2 as well? Seems odd, given the bump of -r3 into stable. |
First they fixed the problem, then they raised the kernel revision and afterwards, when all kernels are patched, we'll see the GLSA. I don't really understand the way, they handle security problems, too.
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Genone
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| Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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Both -r2 and -r3 were fixed, the bump was to encourage people to upgrade their kernel. If only -r2 would have been fixed many people wouldn't have noticed it.
Btw, the situation is similar for gentoolkit, the version bumps there are only to encourage people to re-emerge it. |
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