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On 11/06/2010 11:45 AM, Alex Alexander wrote: |
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> On 6 Nov 2010, at 16:37, "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Hi everyone, |
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>> The hardened team is planning to restructure its profiles so that there |
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>> is no version. Thus on a amd64 system, |
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>> [8] hardened/linux/amd64/10.0 |
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>> [9] hardened/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib |
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>> would appear as |
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>> [8] hardened/linux/amd64 |
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>> [9] hardened/linux/amd64/no-multilib |
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>> We're planning on starting with the minor arches and then moving onto |
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>> x86 and amd64. Since this has the potential to impact all profiles |
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>> (given the complex inheritance structure), we'd like any feedback or |
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>> caveats before we proceed. |
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>> Anthony G. Basile (blueness) |
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>> and the hardened team |
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>> -- |
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>> Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. |
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>> Gentoo Developer |
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> I'd like to know why you made this decision :) |
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> also, what will you do in the future if the need to make a change that breaks stuff shows up? |
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> Alex | wired | sent from my i4 |
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The idea here is that if the version changes from 10.0 to 12.0 or |
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whatever, then the user doesn't have to change profiles. They can just |
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stay on (say) hardened/linux/amd64 and we'll make the profile change |
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behind the scene by modifying a line like ../../../releases/10.0 to |
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../../../releases/12.0 |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. |
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Gentoo Developer |
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