Thanks for this information, the last update I did this morning didn't have the Arming message show up so I think maybe an update closed this vulnerability. On Wed, 1 Feb 2017, Jelle van der Waa wrote:
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 04:12:52 From: Jelle van der Waa <jelle@vdwaa.nl> Reply-To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general@archlinux.org> To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general@archlinux.org> Subject: Re: [arch-general] systemd latest upgrade
On 01/31/17 at 04:18pm, Jude DaShiell wrote:
For the last several systemd upgrades an error complaining about a missing uefi directory has come out when those upgrades were being installed. Today that happened too.
No clue
However any package install now finishes with the message: Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate ....
That's just a pacman hook to touch /var, for the recent CVE issue in systemd [1] [2]
[1] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/systemd&id=59541b72a7ec32b30343a2a388b40ea1365f6308 [2] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/24/4
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