On 23 October 2015 at 20:53, William Harrington <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, October 23, 2015 18:07, Richard Melville wrote: >> On 23 October 2015 at 17:47, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Richard Melville wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm currently doing a security audit on all my LFS systems and I found >>>> that one is running udev-181. The question is: are there any security >>>> issues linked with that version of udev? I've searched the Web and I >>>> haven't found anything untoward, but maybe somebody here knows better. >>>> The system runs OK. >>> >>> >>> It's really hard to say since udev was merged with systemd, the issues >>> are >>> just lumped together. >>> >>> You probably could update to eudev without problems. >> >> >> From what I can see udev has a different structure from eudev, for >> example, I can't see any udev hwdb files. Is that going to cause me >> problems or is it hard to say? >> >> Richard > Hello Richard, > > hwdb was added after udev 195. By then, udev had been merged into systemd > and gentoo created the eudev project. You can probably find more > information about hwdb at gentoo mailing lists or the systemd mailing > lists regarding udev. > > https://github.com/gentoo/eudev (you can view the commit when hwdb was > created and read the NOTES file after that commit.) > > Also, you'll need to be sure to view the README to configure your kernel > with the required options.
Thanks William -- I was really only using hwdb as an illustration as to the different structure between my version of udev and eudev. My question had become, after Bruce raised the possibility: will I run into any issues by removing udev-181 and replacing it with the latest version of eudev? Richard -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
