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On 03/15/2011 02:05 PM, Grant wrote: |
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> A dev is asking me to switch to a hardened profile in order to test a |
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> fix. I'm happy to go through the process, but is there a chance my |
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> laptop could be unusable after the switch? If that happens I'll be in |
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> real trouble. Will I be able to switch back to a non-hardened profile |
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> afterward? I plan to follow this guide: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/hardenedfaq.xml#hardenedprofile |
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> BTW, are emerge -e world and emerge -e system both necessary? I |
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> thought emerge -e world would rebuild everything. |
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Switching to hardened is safe. The switch back should be, too, although |
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I haven't personally tried it. (Why would you switch back?) |
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You emerge system first, and then world so that your world is built by a |
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hardened toolchain. When you compile gcc/glibc with USE=hardened, it |
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gives them super powers. |
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