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NOTICE: kpatch is deprecated

8 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 3 stories, 5 comments · first 2014-08-23 · latest 2023-06-22

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  1. …use to provide them are not. However, I think the Gentoo folks do have some open infra code. https://github.com/dynup/kpatch https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Elivepatch https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Live_patching…
    comment by pabs3 · 2023-02-20 · in Self hosting in 2023
  2. Kpatch is fully open https://github.com/dynup/kpatch But if you mean the Kernel patch packages themselves, then you are right, looks like there are no free patch packages that one can just download and use.
    comment by jacooper · 2022-10-06 · in Ubuntu Pro
  3. > now supports kernel live patching Never heard of this before. Looks like it's called kpatch: https://github.com/dynup/kpatch
    comment by statquontrarian · 2022-05-20 · in What's new in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  4. You can use stuff like https://github.com/dynup/kpatch or http://www.ksplice.com/ to apply security patches to a running Linux kernel, but that's still pretty new stuff. Stratus has been doing that since the 90s, though :-)
  5. As pointed out by chomp [1] (above). [1] https://github.com/dynup/kpatch?hn#license
    comment by Zancarius · 2014-08-23 · in Kpatch: Dynamic Linux kernel patching