Re: [gentoo-hardened] New uclibc profiles will hit the tree soon

[Anthony G. Basile]

Hi everyone,

Can I get feedback regarding the subproject page at

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/uclibc/

before I link it up and announce it to the rest of the world.

BTW, newer stage3's for amd64 and x86 uclibc are on the tree now under 
experimental.

--Tony


On 10/27/2012 06:17 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Either today or tomorrow, there will be two new experimental hardened
> profiles, one on amd64 and the other x86. These will be:
>
> hardened/linux/uclibc/amd64
>
> and
>
> hardened/linux/uclibc/x86
>
> Please be careful with them! Do not try to switch to these profiles from
> a glibc system. portage will complain about blocking and not let you
> proceed, but for the truly stubborn who will hack away until it does
> work, trust me, it will not work. It will utterly break everything.
>
> Aside: while this is an extreme case, switching profiles is never to be
> taken lightly. Eg. hardened <-> non-hardened or selinux <-> non-selinux.
>
> For the curious, you can play with these using the stage3's at
>
> http://http://67.151.215.237/
>
> Notice there are 4 combinations
>
> amd64 hardened
> amd64 vanilla
>
> i686 hardened
> i686 vanilla
>
> The amd64 are completely done. I'm working on i686 now so you may want
> to wait on those. Any stage marked on or later than oct 25 should be good.
>
> Note: the vanilla is just hardened with USE="-hardened" set in
> make.conf. They are being built as a comparison to the hardened.
>
>
>


-- 
Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D.
Chair of Information Technology
D'Youville College
Buffalo, NY 14201
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