[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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