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Jerome Brown wrote: |
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>A few thoughts from my point of view... |
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>Is there a ground of support for some of the security options that have |
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>been circulated in the forums - e.g. having the ability to apply patches |
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>to software without having to upgrade to a newer version, and to do so |
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>with an 'emerge -u world' style command? This to me seems to be |
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something like emerge --security world that would just look for security |
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updates |
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>The other question that I had is, with regards to chroot()ing services, |
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>are there going to be separate 'hardened' ebuilds for these, or will |
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>they incorporate the chroot() option as a USE flag, and the ebuild puts |
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I think this is what we should standardize on. It will be harder, but |
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we have to assume that the original ebuild author knows the app the |
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best, but maybe not how to chroot it. Maybe we could be a resource to |
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help tighten existing ebuilds as we come across them. |
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ebuilds are far from generic anyway, and thier advantage is the ability |
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to customize the source and install based on the USE flags. |
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>Jerome Brown |
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-Aaron |
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