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On Tuesday 23 December 2008 19:51:37 Willie Wong wrote: |
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> Going from non-hardened to hardened may run into some downgrading |
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> problems, however, in view of the above. For example, hardened devs |
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> still have not put gcc4 in stable (at least on x86, I don't know about |
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> amd64), so if you have gcc4 installed, you'll need to downgrade. Along |
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> the same lines some packages that will not compile unless you use gcc4 |
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> cannot be installed (lilypond for example). |
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I suspect downgrading from non-hardened to hardened will be impossible; |
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glibc-2.6.1 is stable on x86 at least, so in all probability almost all x86 |
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boxen will at least have that. |
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But >=glibc-2.6 is hard masked on x86 so there is no commonality and no |
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version available where the glibc ebuild will even permit this required |
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downgrade. It would seem that a reinstall is the only possible way to do |
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this. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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