Re: [gentoo-hardened] Which profile?

[Tom Hendrikx]

Gordon Malm wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 11, 2009 10:53:46 Tom Hendrikx wrote:
>> Then I'll be the one to ask the annoying questions:)
>>
>> 1) Why are they there (could be related to some over-enthousiast
>> non-hardened devs)?
>>
>> 2) Why do the profiles in the released hardened stages point to
>> "../usr/portage/profiles/hardened/linux/x86/2008.0" by default? I
>> checked this in stage1-x86-hardened-2008.0.tar.bz2 and
>> stage3-i686-hardened-2008.0.tar.bz2
>>
>> 3) As these profiles seem to reflect the new "preferred layout", I
>> understand that someone added them. But why aren't settings from
>> supported hardened profiles ported to this new layout, to remove the
>> ambiguity?
>
> To make a long story short one hand didn't know what the other was doing.  The
> new profiles are the way I'd like to go, but they need some adjustment and
> the old profiles should be used for now.  The situation is what it is today
> because nobody (me) has gotten around to fixing+testing the new profiles and
> dealing with the transition.  Not what you wanted to hear probably, but
> there's much to do in hardened land and not many to do it.
>
> Gordon Malm (gengor)
>

My questions arose from curiosity, so thanks for clearing up. It's too
bad that the situation is like it is, but I understand that there is
more than enough work to be done, and not enough man power.

Just know that testing stuff can be easily 'outsourced', just abuse the
mailing list:)

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Regards,
	Tom