[Buildroot] [PATCH v2] util-linux: security bump to version 2.31

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Thu Nov 2 09:00:02 UTC 2017


>>>>> "Carlos" == Carlos Santos <casantos at datacom.ind.br> writes:

Hi,

 >> Do you know if there's any reason to prefer this version over our
 >> existing rfkill package? The fact that it isn't available on nommu
 >> probably means we cannot get rid of the separate package, but we may
 >> want to add it to UTIL_LINUX_DEPENDENCIES so the util-linux version
 >> "wins".

 > I think this one is preferable because util-linux is actively maintained
 > while the original rfkill seems to be abandoned (the last commit in its
 > git repository is from Jan 8 2015).

Ok.

 > How many nommu architectures does Buildroot support? The only boards I
 > found without BR2_USE_MMU were qemu_{arm_versatile,xtensa_lx60}_nommu,
 > which obviously do not even have RF radios to turn on/off.

It is indeed probably a quite rare combination. Perhaps we should get
rid of the separate rfkill package then and add Config.in.legacy
handling for it selecting the util-linux option?

Volkov, you added the rfkill package. Any issues with moving to the
util-linux variant instead?

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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