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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <basile@××××××××××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Help testing new hardened profiles structure
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:02:34
Message-Id: 4CD74B6B.1030408@opensource.dyc.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Help testing new hardened profiles structure by "Claes Gyllenswärd"
1 On 11/07/2010 01:47 PM, Claes Gyllenswärd wrote:
2 > 2010/11/6 Anthony G. Basile <blueness@g.o>:
3 >>
4 >> Hi hardened users,
5 >>
6 >> You may have heard by now that hardened is thinking of changing its
7 >> profile structure. The current structure is crazy complex and there is
8 >> no need for it. Basically we're going to be removing the versioning in
9 >> our profiles so that instead of
10 >>
11 >> [8] hardened/linux/amd64/10.0 *
12 >> [9] hardened/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib
13 >>
14 >> you will simply get
15 >>
16 >> [8] hardened/linux/amd64/10.0 *
17 >> [9] hardened/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib
18 >>
19 >> to profile-config list. (It'll be similar on the other arches). Behind
20 >> the scenes, we are also deprecating the various "sub-profiles" which
21 >> aren't even included in the profiles.desc list, like amd64/10.0/desktop,
22 >> /server, /developer etc.
23 >>
24 >> This isn't happening soon, so don't panic! You will get a portage news
25 >> item when we're about to do the switch and we will proceed slowly.
26 >>
27 >> I'm emailing the list to sollicit help in testing, espeically on the
28 >> minor arches which are slatted to go first. If you'd like to help out,
29 >> here's how:
30 >>
31 >> 1. Record your current list from emerge -ep system and emerge -ep world
32 >>
33 >> 2. git clone git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/hardened-dev.git
34 >>
35 >> 3. cd hardened-dev
36 >>
37 >> 4. git branch profiles origin/profiles
38 >>
39 >> 5. git checkout profiles
40 >>
41 >> 6. mount --bind profiles/ /usr/portage/profiles
42 >>
43 >> 7. Record your emerge -ep system and emerge -ep world, and compare to
44 >> before.
45 >>
46 >> There should be no or only minor changes.
47 >>
48 >> Thanks.
49 >>
50 >> --
51 >> Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
52 >> Gentoo Developer
53 >>
54 >>
55 >
56 > This made no difference at all on stable amd64, but I never actually
57 > switched profile, since the instructions don't mention that.
58 > Should I?
59
60 Yeah I probably should have mentioned that you need to do profile-config
61 list, notice whatever number corresponds to your profile and then
62 profile-config set <num>
63
64 --
65 Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D.
66 Chair of Information Technology
67 D'Youville College
68 Buffalo, NY 14201
69 (716) 829-8197

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Re: [gentoo-hardened] Help testing new hardened profiles structure "Claes Gyllenswärd" <letharion@×××××.com>