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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: Gentoo Development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Why is my news item not showing up.
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 08:44:53
Message-Id: 56275074.4050702@gentoo.org
1 Hi everyone,
2
3 I pushed out my news item and it landed in /usr/portage/metadata on my
4 hardened servers, but its not showing up with eselect news. Does anyone
5 know why? I don't know how to debug this. I pushed it to
6 git.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git in a directory called
7 2015-10-21-future-support-of-hardened-sources-kernel. I have two files
8 in there:
9
10 2015-10-21-future-support-of-hardened-sources-kernel.en.txt
11 2015-10-21-future-support-of-hardened-sources-kernel.en.txt.asc
12
13 Here' it is again just so you don't have to go digging:
14
15 Title: Future Support of hardened-sources Kernel
16 Content-Type: text/plain
17 Posted: 2015-10-21
18 Revision: 1
19 News-Item-Format: 1.0
20 Display-If-Installed: sys-kernel/hardened-sources
21 Display-If-Keyword: hardened
22 Display-If-Keyword: pax_kernel
23 Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/amd64
24 Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/amd64/no-multilib
25 Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/amd64/no-multilib/selinux
26 Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/amd64/selinux
27 Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/amd64/x32
28 Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/arm/armv6j
29 Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/arm/armv7a
30 Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/ia64
31 Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/musl/amd64
32 Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/musl/amd64/x32
33 Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/musl/arm/armv7a
34 Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/musl/mips
35 Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/musl/mips/mipsel
36 Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/musl/ppc
37 Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/musl/x86
38 Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/powerpc/ppc32
39 Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/powerpc/ppc64/32bit-userland
40 Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/powerpc/ppc64/64bit-userland
41 Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/uclibc/amd64
42 Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/uclibc/arm/armv7a
43 Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/uclibc/mips
44 Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/uclibc/mips/mipsel
45 Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/uclibc/ppc
46 Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/uclibc/x86
47 Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/x86
48 Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux/x86/selinux
49
50 For many years, the Grsecurity team [1] has been supporting two versions of
51 their security patches against the Linux kernel, a stable and a testing
52 version, and Gentoo has made both of these available to our users
53 through the
54 hardened-sources package. However, on August 26 of this year, the team
55 announced they would no longer be making the stable version publicly
56 available, citing trademark infringement by a major embedded systems company
57 as the reason. [2] The stable patches are now only available to sponsors of
58 Grsecurity and can no longer be distributed in Gentoo. However, the
59 team did
60 assure us that they would continue to release and support the testing
61 version
62 as they have in the past.
63
64 What does this means for users of hardened-sources? Gentoo will continue to
65 make the testing version available through our hardened-sources package
66 but we
67 will have to drop support for the 3.x series. In a few days, those ebuilds
68 will be removed from the tree and you will be required to upgrade to a 4.x
69 series kernel. Since the hardened-sources package only installs the kernel
70 source tree, you can continue using a currently built 3.x series kernel but
71 bear in mind that we cannot support you, nor will upstream. Also keep
72 in mind
73 that the 4.x series will not be as reliable as the 3.x series was, so
74 reporting bugs promptly will be even more important. Gentoo will
75 continue to
76 work closely with upstream to stay on top of any problems, but be
77 prepared for
78 the occasional "bad" kernel. The more reporting we receive from our users,
79 the better we will be able to decide which hardened-sources kernels to mark
80 stable and which to drop.
81
82 Refs.
83 [1] https://grsecurity.net
84 [2] https://grsecurity.net/announce.php
85
86
87 --
88 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
89 Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
90 E-Mail : blueness@g.o
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Why is my news item not showing up. Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>