Does everyone know that the critical kernel patches have been available at kernel.org for some time? I downloaded and ran the normal compile steps
(make menuconfig, make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install) copied the resulting image into the /boot dir, edited grub and rebooted. It works. It's tedious though. What it buys you is your machine is patched while waiting for the Fedora Legacy RPMs.
FYI, the kernel source now includes a "make install" target which encompasses make bzImage and automates the last step (copying the kernel image to /boot, building an initrd, updating grub).
Even better, if you copy the config file (the RPMs put it in /boot/config-versionname) to /path-to-your-kernel-source-dir/.config, you can run "make oldconfig" instead of "make menuconfig" -- this will keep all the old answers and only ask you about items that are new, which eliminates most of the tedium.
That simplifies things immensely:
cd /path/to/source cp /boot/config-2.4.whatever .config make oldconfig make dep; make; make modules; make modules_install; make install
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