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Hi everyone, |
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I just added the new hardened/linux/13.0 profiles to the tree for |
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testing. These do not show up under eselect profile and never will --- |
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they are not listed in profile.desc. They are on the tree for testing |
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only. Also, I skipped the minor arches and only added x86 and amd64. |
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If you are the adventurous type, then you can test them out for me. Eg. |
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if you are on amd64 and you currently have: |
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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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[22] hardened/linux/uclibc/amd64 |
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then you can tested out the equivalent 13.0 profile by proceeding as |
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follows: |
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0) Make sure you have the latest version of portage which supports EAPI=5. |
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1) delete your current make.profile sym link. It can be found in one of |
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two locations |
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/etc/make.profile #old deprecated location |
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or |
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/etc/portage/make.profile #new sexy location |
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2) Despite where your old make.profile was, the new one should be in the |
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portage config dir, so |
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cd /etc/portage |
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3) Create a new sym link |
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ln -s ../../usr/portage/profiles/hardened/linux/13.0/amd64 make.profile |
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Notice the extra .../13.0/... in there. |
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4) You should notice no changes! The 13.0 profiles just pave the way |
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for the goodness that comes with EAPI=5. However, as time goes on, 10.0 |
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and 13.0 will diverge. |
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Note to maintainers: It cannot be stressed how crappy the profile |
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system is. I could not find a way around duplicating what we have at |
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hardened/linux |
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at |
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hardened/linux/13.0 |
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So, if you make a change to any files in the base level of |
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hardened/linux or any subdir of hardened/linux/{amd64,x86} you must |
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manually mirror that change in hardened/linux/13.0. |
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Sorry, there is no easy way around this. We will put up with it for |
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about six months and then hardened/linux will inherit 13.0 and |
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hardened/linux/13.0 will go bye-bye. We may have to move faster if 10.0 |
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and 13.0 start to diverge too quickly. |
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Enjoy! |
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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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