Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hardened

From: Matt Poletiek <chill550@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Switching to hardened
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:47:17
Message-Id: 1d624cdd0610050643x7ac9766axd10dbb5569808802@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-hardened] Switching to hardened by Darknight
1 As far as I know a switch is impossible if you are running latest
2 glibc. Downgrading is not a good idea at all and I dont think portage
3 will let you do it. I heard something about SELinux switching to glibc
4 2.4 so there should be gcc-4.1-hardened not far off.
5
6 On 10/5/06, Darknight <darknight7@×××××××.it> wrote:
7 > I want to switch from vanilla to hardened toolchain (no kernel right now).
8 > Problem: the box is a production server, and no, I can't build a new one at
9 > present.
10 > Is the switch totally foolproof and safe?
11 > -or-
12 > Would you recommend to wait until I can rebuild an hardened machine from
13 > scratch and migrate data?
14 >
15 > Thank you for help
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-hardened] Switching to hardened Matt Poletiek <chill550@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-hardened] Switching to hardened Darknight <darknight7@×××××××.it>