Package update and some rewording:

Update to fetchmail-6.4.27.

Rewording about the examples in Intel microcode, they are old and
that machine now runs version 0xec (although I guess they will soon
stop providing newer updates for Skylake) and of course the kernel
versions are way out of date.
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Ken Moffat 2022-02-12 14:47:48 +00:00
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<para>February 12th, 2022</para>
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<para>[ken] - Update to fetchmail-6.4.27. Fixes
<ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;16019">#16019</ulink>.</para>
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<para>February 11th, 2022</para>
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<!ENTITY fetchmail-download-http "&sourceforge-dl;/fetchmail/fetchmail-&fetchmail-version;.tar.xz">
<!ENTITY fetchmail-download-ftp " ">
<!ENTITY fetchmail-md5sum "2fc7463df373ad92420b62f9901c4527">
<!ENTITY fetchmail-md5sum "fbeab300ed54b973066d651132e80592">
<!ENTITY fetchmail-size "1.3 MB">
<!ENTITY fetchmail-buildsize "16 MB including tests">
<!ENTITY fetchmail-buildsize "17 MB including tests">
<!ENTITY fetchmail-time "0.1 SBU including tests">
]>

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<!-- Chapter 19 -->
<!ENTITY mailx-version "12.5">
<!ENTITY procmail-version "3.22">
<!ENTITY fetchmail-version "6.4.26">
<!ENTITY fetchmail-version "6.4.27">
<!ENTITY mutt-version "2.1.5">
<!ENTITY alpine-version "2.21">

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microcode. This must be done by navigating to <ulink url=
'https://github.com/intel/Intel-Linux-Processor-Microcode-Data-Files/releases/'/>
and downloading the latest file there. As of this writing the most
secure version of the microcode, for those machines which can boot it,
<!-- at one time, some skylakes had problems with a certain revision
secure version of the microcode, for those machines which can boot it, -->
secure version of the microcode
is microcode-20220207.<!-- If you have a Skylake machine, please read the
Caution in the 'Early loading of microcode' section below.--> Extract this
file in the normal way, the microcode is in the <filename>intel-ucode
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<screen><userinput>dmesg | grep -e 'microcode' -e 'Linux version' -e 'Command line'</userinput></screen>
<para>
This reformatted example for a machine with old microcode in its BIOS
This old example showing the very old BIOS firmware version
was created by temporarily booting without
microcode, to show the current Firmware Bug messages, then the late load
shows it being updated to revision 0xea.
shows it being updated to revision 0xea which was current at that time.
</para>
<screen><literal>[ 0.000000] Linux version 5.12.8 (lfs@leshp) (gcc (GCC) 11.1.0,
@ -485,7 +487,7 @@ cd initrd</userinput></screen>
<para>
The places and times where early loading happens are very different
in AMD and Intel machines. First, an Intel (Skylake) example with early loading:
in AMD and Intel machines. First, an old example of an Intel (Skylake) with early loading:
</para>
<screen><literal>[ 0.000000] microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0xea, date = 2021-01-25