[gentoo-hardened] Technical repercussions of grsecurity removal

[Sven Vermeulen]

Hi all,

There is a nice debate ongoing on the mailinglist [1] on the topic of
grsecurity's recent decision to no longer provide the test patches to the
public. I'd like to keep the debate on the rationale of it in that
discussion, but focus here on what we, from Gentoo Hardened, now need to do
or which direction we're going to move forward with.

[1]
https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-hardened/message/a06145056b167f52c079bffd9c9a51ac

The obvious step is indeed to stop further *current* development on
hardened-sources. I don't know how many additional patchsets are being
implemented in it (blueness? Zorry?) so I don't know if it means that
hardened-sources in total is done with or not.

From the online discussions I also hear that we shouldn't be referring to
grsecurity anymore (even when it was still the test patches). This means
that we need to update our wiki articles, as well as include a note that the
document is only valid until a certain time (I don't want to remove them,
for those users that still have older versions running and want to find the
documentation on it).

Now, I mentioned *current* development. Are there other improvements that we
can look at which make sense to put into hardened-sources, and are there
volunteers to help out with it?

Wkr,
	Sven Vermeulen