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On вс 27 янв 2013 18:32:19 MSK, Anthony G. Basile <basile@××××××××××××××.edu> wrote: |
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> Hi everyone, |
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> The number of profiles in gentoo is growing *again* with the addition of |
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> release 13.0 profiles. Because of the way stacking works, adding these |
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> to hardened means a repetition of code in a way that is not good. I'll |
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> decide how to proceed in a week or so, let everyone know and then |
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> implement something. Right now I'm leaning towards "test" profiles for |
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> amd64 and x86 and after some good period of testing (6 months?) just |
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> switch all of hardened from 10.0 to 13.0. |
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> While I'm at the business of rethinking the profiles, I've been |
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> wondering, does anyone use the /desktop, /developer, /server sub |
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> profiles? I've officially only listed the following |
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> [18] hardened/linux/amd64 * |
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> [19] hardened/linux/amd64/selinux |
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> [20] hardened/linux/amd64/no-multilib |
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> [21] hardened/linux/amd64/no-multilib/selinux |
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> for amd64, and similarly for other arches. But there also exist |
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> profiles like: |
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> hardened/linux/amd64/desktop |
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> hardened/linux/amd64/developer |
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> hardened/linux/amd64/server |
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> for ia64, ppc, ppc64 and x86. I didn't even bother to add these for |
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> mips or arm. These are not listed in profiles.desc, so you can't |
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> eselect them, but a user could manually create those links. |
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> If no one is using them, I'll mark them deprecated, and dump them in a |
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> month or two. |
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> Comments? |
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I've never used these subprofiles. |
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Alexander Tsoy |
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