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Hi list, |
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I have a question: |
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Since I am new to gentoo, I don't know how security updates work. |
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I know Debian. In Debian if I have stable installed on a production |
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server, I get regular security fixes, often backported from the current |
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bleeding edge version, where upstream has fixed the bug to the version |
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that Debian stable contains. |
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I have noticed that in gentoo there are many versions of a package that |
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are considered stable. Take glibc as an example, according to |
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http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=glibc, on x86 there are 8 |
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versions available, all of them stable. |
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I have now two gentoo machines, one is going to be production, the |
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other is used to get me a little bit more familiar with the system. |
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On the playground machine I have 2006.1 installed, glibc 2.4-r3 |
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On the production machine I have 2006.0, switched to hardened profile, |
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and then recompile, there I have glibc 2.3.6-r5 |
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I see now that glibc 2.4-r3 should be upgraded to 2.4-r4 (by the way, |
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where can I check the differences (Changelog) between two gentoo |
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versions (like r3 and r4)?) |
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So my question: If someone finds a bug in glibc that gets corrected, |
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what does the gentoo maintainers do about it? Do they backport the fix |
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in all 8 versions? Or just in some of the versions and mark the not |
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fixed ones ~? |
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Is there some mailinglist (like debian-security-announce) where such |
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security fixes are announced? |
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What is the reason that the hardened profile selects the 2.3.6 version |
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instead of the 2.4? I mean not in glibc's case only, but generally. |
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Does libc 2.4 have troubles with ssp? |
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Cheers, |
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G |
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