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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Remove obsolete pmask entries from profiles
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:55:47
Message-Id: 4E493343.7070407@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-hardened] Remove obsolete pmask entries from profiles by Sven Vermeulen
1 On 08/14/2011 04:17 AM, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
2 > Hi guys,
3 >
4 > Many hardened profiles still pmask the following GCCs:
5 >
6 > =sys-devel/gcc-4.3.2*
7 > =sys-devel/gcc-4.4.1*
8 > =sys-devel/gcc-4.4.3-r2
9 > =sys-devel/gcc-4.4.4
10 >
11 > These packages are not available in the tree (nor hardened-dev overlay)
12 > anymore, yet are referenced by
13 >
14 > /usr/portage/profiles/selinux/2007.0/x86/hardened/package.mask
15 > /usr/portage/profiles/selinux/2007.0/amd64/hardened/package.mask
16 > /usr/portage/profiles/selinux/v2refpolicy/x86/hardened/package.mask
17 > /usr/portage/profiles/selinux/v2refpolicy/amd64/hardened/package.mask
18 > /usr/portage/profiles/hardened/package.mask
19 > /usr/portage/profiles/hardened/linux/package.mask
20 >
21 > Okay if those get removed?
22 >
23 > Report courtesy of http://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/invalid-mask.txt
24 >
25 > Wkr,
26 > Sven Vermeulen
27
28 Its lint and can be removed. It doesn't do any harm masking a package
29 that doesn't exist, but it does clutter the already hard to read profiles.
30
31 --
32 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
33 Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
34 E-Mail : blueness@g.o
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