On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 11:33 +0100, Orlando Richards wrote:
> Ahh - it's released under "Extended Update Support" only - otherwise it's got to be 2.6.9-89.0.3 for the fix.
> 
> Please ignore my original question then!

Why? I think it's quite a good one. SL is actually providing this
"extended update support", so the z-stream kernel errata would be the
most suitable choice, except for 4.8 beta, IMHO.

It's my impression that with the much longer "full support" times,
and the much longer time between point releases, feature backports upon
minor releases have become significantly more aggressive, and updating
to the 4.n+1 kernel on SL4.n is much more likely to cause problems than
it used to be in the past.

There were quite a few problems when updates for 5.3 were pushed out to
5.2 and older releases, and I wouldn't expect it to work any better with
4.8. One example: the openib in the 4.8 kernel won't match the userland
packages on 4.7 and earlier. No clue yet whether or not this will cause
any actual problems, but it doesn't feel right.

Just my 2c,
	Stephan

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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Orlando Richards [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: 02 July 2009 11:25
> > To: Orlando Richards; Troy Dawson
> > Cc: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: RE: SL4 kernel
> > 
> > Argh - it seems that redhat haven't even released it yet! At least, I
> > can't find it in RHN - only up to 2.6.9-78.0.22 :(
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:owner-
> > > [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Orlando
> > Richards
> > > Sent: 02 July 2009 10:50
> > > To: Troy Dawson
> > > Cc: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: SL4 kernel
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Do you know if there are any plans to release the 2.6.9-78.0.24
> > version
> > > of the RedHat 4.7 kernel?
> > >
> > > This has the fix for CVE-2009-1337, which has just been fixed with
> > the
> > > release of 2.6.9-89.0.3 from Scientific Linux. However, we cannot yet
> > > use the -89 release kernel as our hardware vendors have not yet
> > > released
> > > supported drivers for RH4.8.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Orlando.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > > Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
> > >
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> > 
> 

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