[gentoo-hardened] Help testing new hardened profiles structure

[Anthony G. Basile]

Hi hardened users,

You may have heard by now that hardened is thinking of changing its
profile structure.  The current structure is crazy complex and there is
no need for it.  Basically we're going to be removing the versioning in
our profiles so that instead of

  [8]   hardened/linux/amd64/10.0 *
  [9]   hardened/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib

you will simply get

  [8]   hardened/linux/amd64/10.0 *
  [9]   hardened/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib

to profile-config list. (It'll be similar on the other arches).  Behind
the scenes, we are also deprecating the various "sub-profiles" which
aren't even included in the profiles.desc list, like amd64/10.0/desktop,
/server, /developer etc.

This isn't happening soon, so don't panic!  You will get a portage news
item when we're about to do the switch and we will proceed slowly.

I'm emailing the list to sollicit help in testing, espeically on the
minor arches which are slatted to go first.  If you'd like to help out,
here's how:

	1. Record your current list from emerge -ep system and emerge -ep world

	2. git clone git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/hardened-dev.git

	3. cd hardened-dev

	4. git branch profiles origin/profiles

	5. git checkout profiles

	6. mount --bind profiles/ /usr/portage/profiles

	7. Record your emerge -ep system and emerge -ep world, and compare to
before.

There should be no or only minor changes.

Thanks.

-- 
Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
Gentoo Developer