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On 11/08/2010 02:22 AM, Claes Gyllenswärd wrote: |
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> 2010/11/8 Anthony G. Basile <basile@××××××××××××××.edu>: |
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>> On 11/07/2010 01:47 PM, Claes Gyllenswärd wrote: |
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>>> 2010/11/6 Anthony G. Basile <blueness@g.o>: |
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>>>> Hi hardened users, |
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>>>> You may have heard by now that hardened is thinking of changing its |
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>>>> profile structure. The current structure is crazy complex and there is |
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>>>> no need for it. Basically we're going to be removing the versioning in |
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>>>> our profiles so that instead of |
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>>>> [8] hardened/linux/amd64/10.0 * |
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>>>> [9] hardened/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib |
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>>>> you will simply get |
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>>>> [8] hardened/linux/amd64/10.0 * |
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>>>> [9] hardened/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib |
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>>>> to profile-config list. (It'll be similar on the other arches). Behind |
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>>>> the scenes, we are also deprecating the various "sub-profiles" which |
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>>>> aren't even included in the profiles.desc list, like amd64/10.0/desktop, |
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>>>> /server, /developer etc. |
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>>>> This isn't happening soon, so don't panic! You will get a portage news |
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>>>> item when we're about to do the switch and we will proceed slowly. |
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>>>> I'm emailing the list to sollicit help in testing, espeically on the |
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>>>> minor arches which are slatted to go first. If you'd like to help out, |
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>>>> here's how: |
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>>>> 1. Record your current list from emerge -ep system and emerge -ep world |
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>>>> 2. git clone git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/hardened-dev.git |
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>>>> 3. cd hardened-dev |
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>>>> 4. git branch profiles origin/profiles |
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>>>> 5. git checkout profiles |
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>>>> 6. mount --bind profiles/ /usr/portage/profiles |
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>>>> 7. Record your emerge -ep system and emerge -ep world, and compare to |
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>>>> before. |
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>>>> There should be no or only minor changes. |
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>>>> Thanks. |
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>>>> -- |
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>>>> Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. |
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>>>> Gentoo Developer |
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>>> This made no difference at all on stable amd64, but I never actually |
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>>> switched profile, since the instructions don't mention that. |
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>>> Should I? |
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>> Yeah I probably should have mentioned that you need to do profile-config |
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>> list, notice whatever number corresponds to your profile and then |
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>> profile-config set <num> |
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>> -- |
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>> Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D. |
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>> Chair of Information Technology |
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>> D'Youville College |
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>> Buffalo, NY 14201 |
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>> (716) 829-8197 |
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> Done that too. No difference in the package lists at all. |
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> vimdiff pointed out a single dot in portages output, but I assume |
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> that's of no concern. |
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Thanks, this give me confidence that I haven't broken anything as far as |
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amd64 goes. |
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Any other arches. I have my own results but would like to hear others. |
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-- |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D. |
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Chair of Information Technology |
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D'Youville College |
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Buffalo, NY 14201 |
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(716) 829-8197 |