On 24 October 2015 at 13:29, Richard Melville <richard.melvill...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 23 October 2015 at 20:53, William Harrington <kb0...@berzerkula.org> wrote: >> On Fri, October 23, 2015 18:07, Richard Melville wrote: >>> On 23 October 2015 at 17:47, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> 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?
OK, the answer is nobody knows and no guarantees; fair enough. I'll test replacing udev-181 with eudev-3.1.5 on a less important box. 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
