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On Wednesday, February 11, 2009 10:53:46 Tom Hendrikx wrote: |
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> Then I'll be the one to ask the annoying questions:) |
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> 1) Why are they there (could be related to some over-enthousiast |
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> non-hardened devs)? |
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> 2) Why do the profiles in the released hardened stages point to |
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> "../usr/portage/profiles/hardened/linux/x86/2008.0" by default? I |
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> checked this in stage1-x86-hardened-2008.0.tar.bz2 and |
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> stage3-i686-hardened-2008.0.tar.bz2 |
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> 3) As these profiles seem to reflect the new "preferred layout", I |
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> understand that someone added them. But why aren't settings from |
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> supported hardened profiles ported to this new layout, to remove the |
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> ambiguity? |
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To make a long story short one hand didn't know what the other was doing. The |
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new profiles are the way I'd like to go, but they need some adjustment and |
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the old profiles should be used for now. The situation is what it is today |
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because nobody (me) has gotten around to fixing+testing the new profiles and |
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dealing with the transition. Not what you wanted to hear probably, but |
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there's much to do in hardened land and not many to do it. |
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Gordon Malm (gengor) |
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