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From: Gordon Malm <gengor@g.o>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] hardened glibc downgrade
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:48:07
Message-Id: 200902130948.03565.gengor@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] hardened glibc downgrade by Guillaume Castagnino
1 On Friday, February 13, 2009 09:15:18 Guillaume Castagnino wrote:
2 > In fact, no: glibc-2.9 was allready keyworded on hardened ~x86 in the
3 > portage tree, and not masked until 2009-02-11.
4 > So ~x86 hardened was naturally upgraded to glibc 2.9 without any
5 > intervention.
6 >
7
8 And naturally if you're running ~ARCH you should know how to
9 manipulate /etc/portage.
10
11 > I have no problem to package.unmask it, it's just to know what is the
12 > reason for this mask :)
13
14 Because sys-libs/glibc-2.8 is about to go stable and stable hardened is not
15 ready for it.
16
17 > But keep in mind that for ~x86 hardened, this mask has a dependency
18 > problem, since ~x86 iproute2 depends on glibc that is now masked on
19 > ~x86 hardened (and was not before 2009-02-11)
20
21 So put sys-libs/glibc into /etc/portage/package.unmask.

Replies

Subject Author
[gentoo-hardened] Re: hardened glibc downgrade Peter Hjalmarsson <xake@×××××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-hardened] hardened glibc downgrade Guillaume Castagnino <casta@×××××.info>