Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hardened

From: "Anthony G. Basile" <basile@××××××××××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] The state of grsecurity in gentoo
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2015 13:55:37
Message-Id: 55EAF455.4070101@opensource.dyc.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] The state of grsecurity in gentoo by Marc Schiffbauer
1 On 9/5/15 5:44 AM, Marc Schiffbauer wrote:
2 > * Anthony G. Basile schrieb am 02.09.15 um 18:13 Uhr:
3 >> Hi everyone,
4 >>
5 >> So by now most people have heard the news that the Grsecurity/PaX team
6 >> are no longer going to be making their stable patches available. The
7 >> reason is that they are in dispute with a certain embedded systems
8 >> vendor and those negotiations broke down. So they decided to make their
9 >> stable patches only available to the sponsors. [1]
10 >>
11 >> What does this mean for Gentoo?
12 > [...]
13 >
14 > Anthony,
15 >
16 > patches are available until 9th. Could you leave the latest 3.14
17 > version in tree? Or do you plan to unpublish them in the tree, too?
18 > Would spender or pipacs want or welcome that we do this?
19 >
20 > TIA
21 > -Marc
22 >
23
24 I'm not sure yet how I will deprecate but I think I have to. Upstream
25 thinks I'm too slow at deprecating already. They push out daily patches
26 and we want to stabilize after a month. Try balance that out!
27
28 --
29 Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D.
30 Chair of Information Technology
31 D'Youville College
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