Re: [gentoo-hardened] Re: Tips for upgrading to the current stable gentoo hardened?

[Tom Hendrikx]

On 29/06/11 16:47, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
> On 06/29/11 07:19, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>>
>> The safest approach in either switching or recompiling everything
>> is:
>>
>> 1. Make the profile is set "eselect profile list" and pick your
>> hardened box.  Careful on amd64 about changing multilib/nomultilib.
>> Stick with your mutilib-edness (if such a word exists :)
>>
>> 2. Rebuild the tool chain: emerge binutils glibc gcc
>>
>> 3. Rebuild system: emerge --keep-going -eq system (note anything
>> that fails you might want to file a bug)
>>
>> 4. Rebuild world: emerge --keep-going -eq world (again not any
>> failures, shouldn't happen else we're not doing our job)
>>
>> system vs world = system is just the bare minimum packages that any
>> box running that profile needs.  world = system + what you've added.
>> You can skip step 3, but there might be a chance of mixing
>> unhardened/hardened stuff if you do, but I'm not 100% sure.
>>
>
> Thank You!
>
> 1. Is there some way this clear, succinct list could get into the
> hardened documentation?
>
> 2. At this point, the 'clearest' way to build a hardened box from scratch
> seems to go a few steps into the Gentoo handbook, then migrate using the
> steps above. Not ideal, but until the documentation can be refined, how
> about either putting these steps into the handbook, or alternatively a
> reference *in the handbook* to wherever you find a home for these steps
> (e.g. QandA).

I built a hardened box last week by grabbing a hardened autobuild, then
following the regular handbook for my arch. Above steps are only needed
when you start from a regular stage, or when you are converting a
regular install.

Usage of autobuilds is missing in the handbook now, but iirc there are
some open bugs on getting this changed.

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Regards,
	Tom