On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 10:32:29AM -0400, DennisG wrote:
On 8/25/20 6:17 AM, gumb wrote:
There's been a recommended update for Leap 15.1 showing for the last few days when I run YaST Online Update: openSUSE-2020-1223
In the Patch Description, it reads:
This update for shim-leap fixes the following issues: - Update shim to 15+git47-lp152.4.3.1 from openSUSE Leap 15.2 References:
I don't pretend to have anything like the tech knowledge necessary to fully evaluate the technical implications or overall worth of most updates, but I do try to apply just a minimal due diligence and cast my eye over the descriptions before just accepting any update.
In this case, there's no references. A web search for openSUSE-2020-1223 brings up nothing. I've scoured pages of search results and don't see anything related. What's more, this updates the package 14-lp151 to 15+git47-lp151. It just seems a bit off to push through an update from a 'stable' version to a git version for a later distro, without further explanation.
Is there a page disliked by the search engines where further info on all these patches can be found?
gumb
On my 15.1 system, there is no such update/patch showing. The last update to shim was Aug 13, from git. Not sure, but isn't 2020-1223 a reference to TW?
This is the SHIM update, that helps fixing the BootHole security issue. We build the shim just once (usually on the latest distro), and release binaries otherwise. This is due to the "binary signing" by Microsoft. the actual shim build was not yet released, as I did not want to break secure boot scenarios, it will be in the next days. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner@opensuse.org