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Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1378-1] New Linux 2.6.18 packages fix several vulnerabilities

From: Johannes Wiedersich <johannes(at)physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>
Date: Fri Sep 28 2007 - 08:45:00 EDT

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Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Friday 28 September 2007 11:18, Jan Wagner wrote:

>>> Running postinst hook script /sbin/update-grub.
>>> You shouldn't call /sbin/update-grub. Please call /usr/sbin/update-grub
>>> instead!
>> you need to modify /etc/kernel-img.conf!

>
> I believe this happens with a freshly installed etch system, so this is bad.
> (Though off-topic for -security.)

IIRC, this should apply only to upgrades from sarge. It's covered in Etch's release notes [1].

[1]
http://www.de.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#s-for_next

regards,
Johannes
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