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2010/11/8 Anthony G. Basile <basile@××××××××××××××.edu>: |
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> On 11/07/2010 01:47 PM, Claes Gyllenswärd wrote: |
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>> 2010/11/6 Anthony G. Basile <blueness@g.o>: |
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>>> |
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>>> Hi hardened users, |
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>>> |
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>>> You may have heard by now that hardened is thinking of changing its |
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>>> profile structure. The current structure is crazy complex and there is |
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>>> no need for it. Basically we're going to be removing the versioning in |
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>>> our profiles so that instead of |
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>>> |
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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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>>> |
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>>> you will simply get |
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>>> |
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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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>>> |
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>>> to profile-config list. (It'll be similar on the other arches). Behind |
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>>> the scenes, we are also deprecating the various "sub-profiles" which |
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>>> aren't even included in the profiles.desc list, like amd64/10.0/desktop, |
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>>> /server, /developer etc. |
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>>> |
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>>> This isn't happening soon, so don't panic! You will get a portage news |
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>>> item when we're about to do the switch and we will proceed slowly. |
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>>> |
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>>> I'm emailing the list to sollicit help in testing, espeically on the |
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>>> minor arches which are slatted to go first. If you'd like to help out, |
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>>> here's how: |
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>>> |
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>>> 1. Record your current list from emerge -ep system and emerge -ep world |
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>>> |
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>>> 2. git clone git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/hardened-dev.git |
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>>> |
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>>> 3. cd hardened-dev |
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>>> |
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>>> 4. git branch profiles origin/profiles |
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>>> |
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>>> 5. git checkout profiles |
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>>> |
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>>> 6. mount --bind profiles/ /usr/portage/profiles |
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>>> |
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>>> 7. Record your emerge -ep system and emerge -ep world, and compare to |
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>>> before. |
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>>> |
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>>> There should be no or only minor changes. |
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>>> Thanks. |
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>>> |
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>>> -- |
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>>> Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. |
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>>> Gentoo Developer |
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>>> |
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>>> |
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>> This made no difference at all on stable amd64, but I never actually |
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>> switched profile, since the instructions don't mention that. |
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>> Should I? |
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> Yeah I probably should have mentioned that you need to do profile-config |
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> list, notice whatever number corresponds to your profile and then |
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> profile-config set <num> |
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> |
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> -- |
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> Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D. |
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> Chair of Information Technology |
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> D'Youville College |
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> Buffalo, NY 14201 |
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> (716) 829-8197 |
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Done that too. No difference in the package lists at all. |
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vimdiff pointed out a single dot in portages output, but I assume |
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that's of no concern. |
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