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From: Guillaume Castagnino <casta@×××××.info>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] hardened glibc downgrade
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:09:09
Message-Id: 200902131909.05093.casta@xwing.info
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] hardened glibc downgrade by Gordon Malm
1 Le vendredi 13 février 2009 18:48:03, Gordon Malm a écrit :
2 > On Friday, February 13, 2009 09:15:18 Guillaume Castagnino wrote:
3 > > In fact, no: glibc-2.9 was allready keyworded on hardened ~x86 in the
4 > > portage tree, and not masked until 2009-02-11.
5 > > So ~x86 hardened was naturally upgraded to glibc 2.9 without any
6 > > intervention.
7 >
8 > And naturally if you're running ~ARCH you should know how to
9 > manipulate /etc/portage.
10 >
11 > > I have no problem to package.unmask it, it's just to know what is the
12 > > reason for this mask :)
13 >
14 > Because sys-libs/glibc-2.8 is about to go stable and stable hardened is not
15 > ready for it.
16 >
17 > > But keep in mind that for ~x86 hardened, this mask has a dependency
18 > > problem, since ~x86 iproute2 depends on glibc that is now masked on
19 > > ~x86 hardened (and was not before 2009-02-11)
20 >
21 > So put sys-libs/glibc into /etc/portage/package.unmask.
22
23 Yes of course.
24 I perfectly know how to do to fix this problem *for me* as ~arch user for many
25 years.
26
27
28 But what I want to point, is that currently, depdency tree seems to be broken
29 for ~x86 : some packages in the ~x86 tree (iproute2 for example) ask for
30 package not available in ~x86 (glibc).
31 Doesn't it sounds wrong to have such situation in the official tree ?
32
33
34 Anyway, thanks for your work :)
35
36 --
37 Guillaume Castagnino
38 guilc@×××××××.net / casta@×××××.info

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