Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hardened

From: klondike <franxisco1988@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Hardened profile update
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:42:49
Message-Id: 8b17778e0909150742k21218026kcfe0c1c704877228@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-hardened] Hardened profile update by Tom Hendrikx
1 2009/9/15 Tom Hendrikx <tom@×××××××××.net>:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > As of today, portage notifies me that my current profile (hardened/x86)
5 > is deprecated, and that "hardened/linux/x86/10.0" is the suggested
6 > replacement.
7 >
8 > A few months ago, there was some traffic on this list regarding
9 > profiles, resulting in the conclusion that "hardened/x86" was to be
10 > preferred above the default as set (by releng?) in the hardened stages:
11 > "hardened/linux/x86", as the latter was not approved or checked by the
12 > hardened project.
13 >
14 > How does the new profile differ from hardened/x86, and is the new
15 > profile tested/approved by the hardened project?
16 AFAIK the profile was aproved, but you'd better wait for a developer
17 to confirm this.
18
19 I didn't find many differences, just a few USEs enabled (I remind
20 python, perl and a few more) and the nls USE disabled. Anyway I
21 suppose other people can give you a more detailed explanation. Also, a
22 bug related with ld and the lirc package has been fixed.