Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hardened

From: "Anthony G. Basile" <basile@××××××××××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Cleaning up the hardened profiles
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 03:26:07
Message-Id: 510C8744.9020402@opensource.dyc.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Cleaning up the hardened profiles by "Anthony G. Basile"
1 On 01/28/2013 04:28 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
2 > On 01/28/2013 03:17 PM, "Tóth Attila" wrote:
3 >> I'm using [20] hardened/linux/amd64/no-multilib.
4 >> If it will be discontinued, please let us know about the proper
5 >> replacement profile.
6 >>
7 >> Regards:
8 >> Dw.
9 >>
10 >
11 > To be clear, all the profiles that show up with eselect profiles will
12 > remain as is, and will continue to get love!
13 >
14 > You'd have to go out of your way to used these sub-profiles! You'd have
15 > to manually create the sym link to them. If you have never done this,
16 > then don't worry.
17 >
18 > A bit of history, these sub-profiles were inherited from the older set
19 > of profiles whose deprecation was started by Gordon (gengor) and ended
20 > by me. I kept these sub-profiles around because they were there in the
21 > old set when I migrated. But over time I began to realize their
22 > uselessness. Time to clean shop.
23 >
24 >
25
26 Okay, the following subprofiles have been marked deprecated in favor of
27 their parent profiles:
28
29 hardened/linux/amd64/desktop
30 hardened/linux/amd64/developer
31 hardened/linux/amd64/server
32 hardened/linux/ia64/desktop
33 hardened/linux/ia64/developer
34 hardened/linux/ia64/server
35 hardened/linux/powerpc/ppc32/desktop
36 hardened/linux/powerpc/ppc32/developer
37 hardened/linux/powerpc/ppc32/server
38 hardened/linux/powerpc/ppc64/32bit-userland/desktop
39 hardened/linux/powerpc/ppc64/32bit-userland/developer
40 hardened/linux/powerpc/ppc64/32bit-userland/server
41 hardened/linux/powerpc/ppc64/64bit-userland/desktop
42 hardened/linux/powerpc/ppc64/64bit-userland/developer
43 hardened/linux/powerpc/ppc64/64bit-userland/server
44 hardened/linux/powerpc/ppc64/desktop
45 hardened/linux/powerpc/ppc64/developer
46 hardened/linux/powerpc/ppc64/server
47 hardened/linux/x86/desktop
48 hardened/linux/x86/developer
49 hardened/linux/x86/minimal
50 hardened/linux/x86/server
51
52 So, for example hardened/linux/amd64/desktop will not default to
53 hardened/linux/amd64.
54
55 I'll wait for screaming, and when I hear none, I will remove these from
56 the tree in about 1 month.
57
58 Also, I will be adding version 13.0 hardened profiles soon, but only for
59 amd64 and x86. These will be for testing only and will not show up in
60 eselect profile .... Once we're satisfied that 13.0 is okay with
61 hardened, I'll switch the regular profiles over. The average user
62 should not even notice the change. I'm leaning towards a 6 month period
63 for testing for 13.0.
64
65
66 --
67 Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D.
68 Chair of Information Technology
69 D'Youville College
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