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. However any package install now finishes with the message: Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate ....
This system is an old x86-64 system with bios on it not uefi so I'm curious to know if there is anything I can do or anything I really ought to do about this message.
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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/syst... [2] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/24/4
On 01-02-17 10:12, Jelle van der Waa wrote:
On 01/31/17 at 04:18pm, Jude DaShiell wrote:
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/syst... [2] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/24/4
The new hook checks for changes in and touches /usr, not /var or /run .
A search for systemd ConditionNeedsUpdate gives [*] .
that condition appears to be used for determining whether a change in /usr requires changes in /etc or /var.
There are some archlinux systemd services that use ConditionNeedsUpdate=/etc , but i can find none that use it with /var .
looks to me like this hook either fails defending fromn that CVE or has some other purpose.
LW
[*] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit.html#Condition...
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/syst... [2] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/24/4
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