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Security last?

Security last?

Posted Nov 17, 2007 19:41 UTC (Sat) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)
In reply to: Security last? by s_cargo
Parent article: Lots of stable kernel updates

>I would have preferred that the first patch to be applied (2.6.23.2) would be the security
fixes, particularly because he describes them as "serious" security fixes.

Well, can't you see the scheme? Obviously, putting the security patches last makes everyone
upgrade to 2.6.23.8, and not "something" with 2 <= x <= 8.


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