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Hi everyone, |
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I'd like to bounce a question of the community regarding the order of |
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profile stackings. We have a suggestion in hardened to re-introduce the |
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hardened desktop profile. This was deprecated because controlling the |
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profile stacking order is very difficult. Specifically, if we set |
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../../../../targets/desktop |
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in $PORTDIR/hardened/linux/amd64/desktop/parent (taking amd64 as an example), then we get a stacking order where targets/desktop overrides hardened/linux/amd64. This causes problems because of flags we need to mask in hardened. |
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A suggestion was forwarded to switch $PORTDIR/hardened/linux/amd64/desktop/parent to the following |
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../../../../targets/desktop |
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.. |
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This, however, puts targets/desktop before even base which is problematic. In fact, the resulting stacking order is: |
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/usr/portage/profiles/targets/desktop |
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/usr/portage/profiles/base |
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/usr/portage/profiles/default/linux |
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/usr/portage/profiles/arch/base |
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/usr/portage/profiles/features/multilib |
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/usr/portage/profiles/features/multilib/lib32 |
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/usr/portage/profiles/arch/amd64 |
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/usr/portage/profiles/releases |
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/usr/portage/profiles/eapi-5-files |
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/usr/portage/profiles/releases/13.0 |
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/usr/portage/profiles/hardened/linux |
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/usr/portage/profiles/hardened/linux/amd64 |
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/usr/portage/profiles/hardened/linux/amd64/desktop |
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The concern with this stacking order is that, with all the later subprofiles overriding targets/desktop, we have breakage waiting to happen when changes are made in arch/amd64 or default/linux. Since the whole community takes care of those profiles, this seems like a question for everyone. Do people assume a particular order to stacking when they commit to arch/ or default/linux? |
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The issue is being tracked in bug #492312. I give an example of my concern there. |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. |
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Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] |
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E-Mail : blueness@g.o |
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