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On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 3:03 PM, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera |
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(klondike) <klondike@g.o> wrote: |
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> El 15/08/17 a las 17:50, R0b0t1 escribió: |
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>> Where was this decision discussed? |
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> https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-hardened/message/62ebc2e26d91e8f079197c2c83788cff |
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> And many other threads in that list for example, those are just blueness |
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> (the package maintainer) conclussions. |
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>> The last available kernel is |
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>> apparently receiving long term support, there may not be any reason to |
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>> remove it. |
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> Not by the original upstream, and definitively not in the way in which |
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> Grsec used to (manually cherrypicking security related commits and not |
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> just those marked as security related). |
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All blueness says in that is that he can't personally support the |
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patches. That's fine, and nobody that I know of ever expected him to |
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do that. However, until they are unfixably broken, why remove them? |
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Keeping them until a suitable replacement is available seems like the |
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best option available. |
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There's no criteria in that notice for when they would be removed. |
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What criteria was used to decide they are generating useless work and |
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should be removed? |
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> Although minipli's kernel patches are good and I personally recommend |
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> them, this is not something the Gentoo Hardened team will do. Also they |
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> probably should be renamed something else. |
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I'm not sure anyone is asking the hardened team to do anything, except |
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for people on the hardened team who want to remove the patches. |
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>> If it isn't broken and creating work yet I'm not sure why |
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>> anyone cares. |
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> Go to #gentoo-hardened and see how there is people asking about this |
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> again and again :P |
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I'm not sure what you mean. There are people asking about it, but that |
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doesn't necessarily mean they want it to happen. If something is done |
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people are going to discuss it regardless of what it is. |
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Please understand, I don't want to keep an old version of the kernel |
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and associated patches around forever, just until a replacement is |
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actually found. |
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R0b0t1. |
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