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Gordon Malm wrote: |
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> On Tuesday, September 15, 2009 04:46:13 Tom Hendrikx wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> |
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>> As of today, portage notifies me that my current profile (hardened/x86) |
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>> is deprecated, and that "hardened/linux/x86/10.0" is the suggested |
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>> replacement. |
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>> |
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>> A few months ago, there was some traffic on this list regarding |
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>> profiles, resulting in the conclusion that "hardened/x86" was to be |
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>> preferred above the default as set (by releng?) in the hardened stages: |
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>> "hardened/linux/x86", as the latter was not approved or checked by the |
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>> hardened project. |
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>> |
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>> How does the new profile differ from hardened/x86, and is the new |
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>> profile tested/approved by the hardened project? |
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>> Regards, |
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>> Tom |
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> |
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> Hi Tom, |
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> You are correct, the hardened/linux/${arch} profiles were born by releng. |
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> Hardened project took them over some time ago however and have been |
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> maintaining both profile sets in parallel. The time has come to pair that |
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> down to a single set of profiles again; thus the older hardened/${arch} |
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> profiles have been deprecated. |
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> The hardened/linux/${arch}/10.0 profiles are tested/approved by the hardened |
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> team. Please file a bug if you run into problems. |
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> |
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> Gordon Malm (gengor) |
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Great, and thanks for the info, and the effort. Testing will commence today. |
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Regards, |
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Tom |
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