[arch-general] systemd latest upgrade

[Jude DaShiell]

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 at vdwaa.nl>
> Reply-To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general at archlinux.org>
> To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general at 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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